May 2009 - Epiphenom

May 30, 2009

Fifty percent of professors of psychology at US universities and colleges do not believe in...

May 28, 2009

Remittances sent by immigrants to their home country are an important source of income for...

May 25, 2009

This one's new out in the British Journal of Sociology. There's no shortage of ideas...

May 22, 2009

When people get anxious about their future, it drives support for right wing authoritarianism. So...

May 19, 2009

So, you're in your bunker, and a hand grenade lands. Do you fall on it,...

May 18, 2009

The fourth edition of Scientia Pro Publica blog carnival is up at Primate Diaries. This...

May 16, 2009

Back in 2005, the sociologist Robert Putnam got a $1.2 million grant from the Templeton...

May 15, 2009

Here's a speculative idea, prompted by an article in this week's New Scientist on the...

May 13, 2009

Supersense has just been published in the UK (it's been out in the US for...

May 11, 2009

The striking thing about supernatural creatures – gods, demons, goblins and the like – is...

May 09, 2009

Following on from the previous post, I wanted to pull out another couple of 'pointers...

May 09, 2009

Following on from the previous post, I wanted to pull out another couple of 'pointers...

May 07, 2009

Francis Collins' new Templeton-sponsored website, BioLogos, has been getting a bit of news coverage recently....

May 04, 2009

Here's a new study which claims that religion actually reduces homophobia. Huh? That's a pretty...

May 02, 2009

Via the Boston Globe comes news of a couple of new networks for research into...

May 01, 2009

Every few years, a group based at Hertford College at Oxford puts together a statistical...