Lab-Grown Meat Can be Kosher and Halal
September 18th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Companies in the fledgling industry hope their product will appeal to vegans and vegetarians as well as climate conscious meat eaters
September 18th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Companies in the fledgling industry hope their product will appeal to vegans and vegetarians as well as climate conscious meat eaters
September 14th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Fresh rainwater has turned the two deep football-sized indents-believed to be horse hoof marks-into puddles. \"That\'s where the horse took off from after the chariot slipped from there.\"
September 11th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Akshayam’s organizers are aiming to regain a hold on a religion being pulled in multiple directions by India’s nationalist politics on one hand and Western influence on the other
July 24th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
A group of activists warn that recent efforts to outlaw caste discrimination in the United States only serve to reaffirm caste differences
July 6th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
The scientific method can explain the electrical activity that sparks in the brain when you jump into a freezing lake, but it can’t explain why a subjective experience of invigoration comes along with it
May 25th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Australian philosopher Peter Singer’s book Animal Liberation, published in 1975, exposed the realities of life for animals in factory farms and testing laboratories and provided a powerful moral basis for rethinking our relationship to them. Now, nearly 50 years on, Singer, 76, has a revised version titled Animal Liberation Now
May 15th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
There is a quiet revolution underway within the literary folds of Islamic feminism, wherein Muslim authors, academics, and activists are using female pronouns for Allah in an attempt to separate God from the idea of a “Divine patriarch.”
April 10th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
A rising cohort of American Hindu leaders are becoming more public about their spirituality. They\'re inspired by the Hindu concept of \"seva\" — selfless service
March 20th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
The first Hindu robot appeared in the stories of King Manu, the first king of the human race in Hindu belief
March 16th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Those who venerate the machine as superior to the human, who themselves can’t see what seems so perfectly obvious —that there is a difference between humans and machines— risk becoming full conspirators in the murder of God
March 13th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Queer life in the context of traditional Buddhist monastic ordination appears to be slowly changing
February 20th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Rabbi Joshua Frankin, the Senior Rabbi at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, asked the new AI tool to write \"a sermon: 1,000 words about the Torah portion on the theme of intimacy and vulnerability.\"