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The Neuroscience of Free Will

Monthly Grant Report – January 2019

Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Tracking and Understanding the Effects of Transformative Events in People’s Lives Regents of the University of Michigan Rada Mihalcea; James Pennebaker $1,684,328 Systematic Review and Analysis of US Federal Investments in Research on Religion and Health University of Connecticut Crystal Park; John Salsman $234,207 The Third Religion, Economics and Society (RES) Initiative: Making the Economic Study of Religion and Religious Markets a Field of the Future Chapman University Jared Rubin $325,346 Divine forgiveness: Phase 1 Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. Frank Fincham $233,994 Religion and human flourishing…

WATCH: How to Find Meaning in the Bottom of a Boat

How does a scientist who grew up only believing in what could be lab-tested come to find meaning through transcendental experience and deep conversations with a Buddhist monk? Recently we sat down with MIT Professor Dr. Alan Lightman to find out.  The acclaimed physicist, author, and John Templeton Foundation grantee joined our Director of Public Engagement, Christopher Levenick, to talk about his career in science, and his long journey to find meaning in his own life.  A transcendental moment on the water At the beginning of the video, Levenick reads a passage from Lightman’s book, Searching for Stars on an…

A molecular complexity approach to identifying bio-signatures, shadow-life, and new life forms

Can Science Set Us Free?

Geometric Phases and Symmetric Quantum Measurements

Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life? | New Research Review from FQXi

Pilot Program: Think Big! Life in the Cosmos for the Smithsonian Future is Here Festival

What Is Emergence?

Nine Ways to Make a Diamond