Religion is not a maladaptive “illusion” (Freud), nor is religion a manipulative “opiate” (Marx). Religious behavior is a ubiquitous...

In school, many of us learned that there are seven continents on Earth—Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South...

Picture and Words: John Yeld/GroundUp It’s now widely accepted that, after several million years of tangled hominid evolution, fully modern humans...

The reach of speaking is both in what is spoken and – even more – in its visibility of non-verbal communication that accompanies told. However,...

What you’re about to read is the abridged and condensed English translation of a speech I gave in Munich in November 2023. You can find the full...

We live in a world where oligarchs accumulate land, use their media assets to denigrate natural foods, and invest in fake alternatives. On the other...

“One ceremony in the saraka was the sprinkling of plain and ‘sweet water’ and rum…This and the plate of unsalted food…represented offerings...

Many stories from ancient Greek mythology are widely known around the world, and many are movies based on them. Over the centuries, Greek Mythology...

The Cyrillic alphabet, the script famously used by Russians (and others), is one of the world’s most widely used systems of writing. The...

    Think back over all of material we have covered this term. What idea, concept, or theory has been most meaningful to you and why? Alternatively,...