I often withdraw to the wilderness; in the picture above, I was looking over Middle Fork Lake, camping near Kagevah Pass. I climbed to this area and saw no one, and the next day I climbed over the pass and explored the other side of the continental divide, and I…
In his book, “The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves,” Dr. Dan Ariely recounts an experiment that measured how faking a little thing in our lives affects us. In the experiment, three groups of people were given real, designer sunglasses. One group was told that they…
In 2009, the Pew Research group surveyed the American Association for the Advancement of Science with the goal of ascertaining levels of belief in God or a transcendent “spirit.” Surprisingly, 51% of scientists believed in some type of higher spirit or God, while 41% didn’t believe that such existed. Perhaps…