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October 17, 2011
in Humanities, Philosophy, Religion, Science

Finding Our Place in the Universe on the Page and Screen

October 17, 2011
in Humanities, Philosophy, Religion, Science

Follow @yaleSCIbooks In our age of calculators, computers, and the fifteenth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, most questions are pretty easy to answer. Why is the sky blue? What is the cube root of 1331? Who was Fredrick the Great of Prussia? Still, in some areas, uncertainty lingers—even though we

June 10, 2011
in Humanities, Religion, Science

Journey of the Universe Book and Documentary Film

June 10, 2011
in Humanities, Religion, Science

This spring and summer marks the premiere of the film and companion book, Journey of the Universe, by Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker, an evolutionary philosopher and a historian of religions, respectively. Their science-based narrative tells the epic story of the universe, leading up to the challenges of