October 2nd, 2010 | by Harmonist staff
What takes place in the digestive system and under the hooves of ruminants might be the crucible of climate change. In other words, a climate-friendly future might look less like a geo-engineered landscape with faux parasols than like, well, “Home On the Range.”
September 28th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff
A team of astrophysicists based in Australia and England has uncovered evidence that the laws of physics are different in different parts of the universe
September 27th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff
Anyone who is both a devotee of Krishna and works with children has probably wanted to have high quality materials to teach their children about Krishna, and moral values, while giving them academic skills. Finally there is a program that achieves these goals
September 10th, 2010 | by Nitaisundara
As September 11 approaches, the world watches as Terry Jones wavers in his plan to burn the Quran in protest of the Ground Zero mosque
September 5th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff
In that earlier incarnation, “I was going along, going along, going along, and I got eaten,” said Dr. DeBell, referring to his previous life as a caveman
August 31st, 2010 | by Harmonist staff
Barring women from being Catholic priests is not the result of sexism 2,000 years ago, it\'s because women cannot fulfill a basic function of the priesthood, \"standing in the place of Jesus,\" a leading British Catholic thinker argued Monday
July 26th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff
Assuming that vegetarians and vegans—because of their underlying moral philosophies—show greater empathy towards animal suffering, it is very well possible that this enhanced empathy extends to other humans also
July 21st, 2010 | by Harmonist staff
Either these gentlemen are more ethically tone deaf than one can imagine, or they are sly beyond the dreams of foxes in an effort to redirect attention from the criminal behavior of clergy against children to their wrath over the ordination of women. Neither option is terribly appealing
July 11th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff
Who will protect Vrindavan from the onslaught business schemes, pollution, and general environmental apathy?
June 16th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff
Monsanto\'s herbicide that revolutionized weed control in the 1990s is facing its own worst enemy: the weeds are revolting against it
June 10th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff
Some adore the Templeton Foundation for funding research that no one else will, while some despise it for the very same reason, claiming that the effort to combine science and spirituality merely sullies the former
May 28th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff
Studies find that deterministic thinking leads to an increase in unethical behavior