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Aid to dying: What Jainism – one of India’s oldest religions – teaches us
By The Conversation — June 12, 2016
On June 9, a law allowing patients with terminal illnesses to end their lives with help from a physician came into effect in California, opening conversations about whether human life should be prolonged against the desire to die peacefully and with dignity. RELATED STORY: California’s End of Life Option law: More peaceful deaths or moral quicksand? […]
Brussels attacks: How radicalization happens
By The Conversation — March 23, 2016
The bombings once again call attention to a serious crisis: the radicalization of citizens outside the Middle East by extremist groups.
Did punitive gods expand human society?
By The Conversation — February 21, 2016
Benjamin Purzycki, University of British Columbia For the bulk of our evolutionary history, human groups were small, tightly knit communities. Only quite recently, some human groups started evolving into the large-scale societies with vast interconnected trade networks we know today. Urban areas in Mesopotamia, for example, developed around 5,000 years ago. Whether trading or purchasing […]
Did punitive gods expand human society?
By The Conversation — February 21, 2016
A study seeks to explain why some religions -- Christianity and Islam in particular -- have dominated the globe.
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