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Featured Grants January 29, 2019

Is Empathy a Renewable Resource?

New interventions may help people open up rather than shutting down when confronted with others’ needs Empathy — the ability to look at the world from another person’s perspective — […]

Featured Grants January 29, 2019

How Does Religious Participation Affect Human Flourishing?

New research to evaluate long-term links between spiritual practice and physical, mental and social well-being A new set of studies based at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health will […]

Featured Grants December 18, 2018

An Education in Character: Building a New Curriculum to Teach Virtues to Future School Leaders

The ideal of a servant leader — one who focuses on the needs of others and guides through persuasion rather than the exercise of raw power — has been upheld […]

Featured Grants December 4, 2018

‘How Often Have You Felt Like Frolicking?’ New Grant to Expand the Science of Joy

Poets and authors write of it, great religious texts call it forth, Beethoven even composed an ode to it — but what is joy, really? Unlike emotions such as happiness […]

Featured Grants December 4, 2018

The Leap to Life: $2.9M Grant to Explore Life’s Emergence

Robotic chemical reactors, synthetic organisms, and artificial intelligence are poised to shed new light on one of science’s most engaging and vexingly murky questions — the origin of life — […]

Featured Grants June 11, 2018

Newly-launched Renovatio magazine addresses big questions for Muslim audiences

With articles and events tied to its second issue, Renovatio magazine is hitting its stride Last spring the inaugural edition of Renovatio, a Muslim journal of ideas published by Zaytuna […]

Featured Grants May 7, 2018

NOVA Wonders

A storied series provides a cutting-edge take on a set of age-old questions Across the globe and across history, people have looked up at the night sky and wondered about […]

Featured Grants March 26, 2018

Faith, Politics, and Intellectual Humility

A public symposium on the prospects for civil discussion In the age of the internet comment, it gets harder and harder to imagine meaningful dialogue between people who disagree about […]

Featured Grants March 26, 2018

New Directions in Philosophy of Cosmology

In the wild world of string theory, quantum gravity, and multiple universes, should the standard scientific methodology still apply? In the Dec. 15, 2014 issue of Nature, cosmologists George Ellis […]

Featured Grants March 12, 2018

WOW, WHY, HOW?

Post by post, Orbiter is building an online archive of wonder as it explores the big questions of the natural and social sciences When describing his mission as managing editor […]