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		<title>Why Rites of Passage Are Painful</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Connor Wood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the podcast "How God Works," I discuss the worldwide phenomenon of painful adolescent rites of passage with psychologist David DeSteno.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>So Long, Pax Americana</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Connor Wood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 03:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[War has returned to Europe after a long, dreamy sabbatical. Russia’s troops and tanks are advancing toward Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine and the Ur-heimat of Slavic Christendom. Apartment buildings are burning; middle-class inhabitants are refugees, homeless, or — in too many cases — dead; and newspaper headlines last Thursday simply said “War in Europe” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>More Signal, Less Noise</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2021/12/more-signal-less-noise/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Connor Wood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2021 16:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A while back, I left formal academia. In the post where I announced that decision, I promised that I’d start writing here more frequently again, since I’d be free from the crushing pressure to self-censor that I’d been feeling as a professional academic. Obviously, that hasn’t happened. For a variety of reasons, the pressure to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Natural History of Music</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2021/12/the-natural-history-of-music/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Connor Wood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scientific study of religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cockatoos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[comparative biology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pair bonding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parrots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rhythm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ritual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scholarium]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m teaching a course on the evolution of music through Scholarium in January and February. Or, more accurately, I’m teaching about the origins of human rhythm — our unique ability to “keep together in time.” Have you ever seen a group of dogs pounding their paws in rhythm on the pavement, jamming out together? No, because [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Geophysicist Dorian Abbot Loses MIT Lecture Thanks to Twitter Mob</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Connor Wood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 15:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[University of Chicago geophysicist Dorian Abbot was disinvited from giving a lecture on exoplanets at MIT because of his outspoken opinions about how universities should prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and hiring — opinions that 74% of Americans and a majority of all races agree with. The future of civil society and higher education in the United States is in peril.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Faith and the Evolutionary Predicament</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2021/08/faith-and-the-evolutionary-predicament/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Connor Wood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Taylor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vocal learning]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The "scientific image" of humans offered by evolutionary biology is cold, impersonal, alienating…and objective. But reality is more than objectivity.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Catholic Latin Mass is a Strong Credibility-Enhancing Display</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2021/07/the-catholic-latin-mass-is-a-strong-credibility-enhancing-display/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Connor Wood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2021 20:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cognitive Science of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costly investment theory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anti-ritualism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pope Francis recently restricted the Catholic Tridentine Latin mass. The resulting firestorm of controversy may help illuminate why so many people don’t believe what their churches teach.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Music and Dance in Human Evolution</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2021/06/music-and-dance-in-human-evolution/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Connor Wood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2021 20:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Humans everywhere play music and dance. But other animals don't — so where did these unique abilities come from? New research provides some suggestions.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Myth of the Egalitarian Noble Savage</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2021/05/the-myth-of-the-egalitarian-noble-savage/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Connor Wood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 16:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cognitive Science of Religion]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Are hunter-gatherer societies really the original egalitarian society? One anthropologist argues against the myth of the leaderless noble savage.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Joys and Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2021/04/the-joys-and-challenges-of-interdisciplinary-research/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Connor Wood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 05:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Academia can be a fiercely jealous environment — jealous, that is, of the boundaries between disciplines. Rather than “scientists,” you’ll find physicists and oceanographers, biologists and chemists, neuroscientists and psychologists, all tucked away in their own, sometimes feuding departments. But even these categories are too broad. There are social cognitive neuroscientists and neuroimaging methodologists, theoretical [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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