Creation, Destruction and the Paradox of Existence
Is it possible for a statement to be both true and false? Try this one: “This statement is false.” Makes you stop and think for a minute, doesn’t it? The above is a classic example of self-reference, a...
View ArticleThe Contortionist: Science, Morality and Extreme Relativism
A debate has raged since the publication of Sam Harris’ book, The Moral Landscape, as to whether or not moral questions can be approached using the scientific method. Even among Harris’ readers there...
View ArticleResearchers Accidentally Discover A Child Born With HIV Has Been Cured
According to scientists at the University of Mississippi, a baby born with HIV appears to have been cured. While the case has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, researchers say the...
View ArticleThe Science of Sleep: Essential to Body, Mind, and Spirit
The average human being sleeps 6 to 8 hours a night, almost 50 hours a week, and more than 2,600 hours a year— that means, on average, we spend almost 21 years of our lives asleep. In this week’s...
View ArticleDeepak Chopra: Time to Get Real – The Riddle of Perception Part 2
By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Murali Doraiswamy, MD; Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D.; Menas Kafatos, Ph.D. In the first post we said that the world that we perceive, with all its colors, textures, and...
View ArticleWonder and Awe: Why We Need Miracles
Do you believe in miracles? Have you ever witnessed one? The lines often blur between what constitutes miracle, coincidence, synchronicity, and plain science. There are of course certain scientific...
View ArticleWhy the Universe Is Our Home – It’s Not a Coincidence
By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., & Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., It would be reassuring to most people to discover that the universe is constructed to favor life. If the human...
View ArticleDeepak Chopra: Scientific Proof of God?
If you’re a regular Deepak Chopra reader and listener, you have probably come across the term “space time.” It may sound nonsensical – it’s either space or time, right? But in physics, “space time” is...
View ArticleThe Best Entertainment Available in the 21st Century
Your future is based on the choices you make every day… That’s a simple enough statement, yet its power defines our life’s meaning or emptiness. Since the logical mind, which makes many of our life’s...
View ArticleWhy the Universe Is Our Home – It’s Not a Coincidence (Part 2)
By Deepak Chopra, M.D., Murali Doraiswamy, MD, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Menas Kafatos, Ph.D At the human level, everyone would like to feel that life has meaning, which implies that the setting for...
View ArticleDeepak Chopra: How Science Explains Paradox
Reality is full of paradox. The happiest moment may bring tears to our eyes; enrichment can lead to depletion; a statement may be both true and false. Most of us learn early on to accept life’s...
View ArticleNew Studies Suggest Plants Can Be Altruistic
While you most likely link altruism to humans and members of the animal family, new research out of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and the University of Colorado Boulder shows that plants can...
View ArticleDeepak Chopra: What Makes Us Human?
What, if anything, sets human beings apart from other species? More and more research in anthropology, primatology, and zoology points to the fact that, biologically and even behaviorally speaking,...
View ArticleYour Brain Is the Universe (Part 2)
By Deepak Chopra, M.D.; Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D.; P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS; and Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D. We all take the physical world for granted, with no doubt that it will still be here when we...
View ArticleDear TED, Is It ‘Bad Science’ or a ‘Game of Thrones’?
By Deepak Chopra, MD. FACP, Stuart Hameroff, MD, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., and Neil Theise, MD One of modern science’s great strengths is that any questionable finding dies a...
View ArticleDeepak Chopra: Reply to Chris Anderson, TED and The TED Community (Part 1)
This letter is in response to the recent letter to all the TEDx organizers, posted by Chris Anderson, the head of TED. The letter proposed certain “red flag” topics, among them health hoaxes and the...
View ArticleDeepak Chopra: Reply to Chris Anderson, TED and the Science of Consciousness...
Click here for part 1 of this article. Part 2 of this letter is in response to the recent letter to all the TEDx organizers, posted by Chris Anderson, the head of TED. The original letter proposed...
View ArticleDeepak Chopra: Is God a Mathematician?
In an ongoing series of philosophical, scientific discussions, Deepak Chopra sits down with Menas Kafatos, a physicist and Chapman University professor, to discuss the fine tuning of the universe. With...
View ArticleDeepak Chopra: Reply to Chris Anderson, TED and Claims of “Pseudoscience”...
Click here for part 1 of this article. Part 3 of this letter is in response to the recent letter to all the TEDx organizers, posted by Chris Anderson, the head of TED. The original letter proposed...
View ArticleDeepak Chopra: Reply to Chris Anderson, TED, and Scientific Dogma (Part 4)
Click here for part 1 of this article. Part 4 of this letter is in response to the recent letter to all the TEDx organizers, posted by Chris Anderson, the head of TED. The original letter proposed...
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