When Buddhists get violent ... The clash between Buddhists and Muslims in Thailand ... The roots of Thailand’s violence ... Military monks ... How Buddhist cosmology can justify violence ... How pacifist is Buddhist pacifism? ...

Lisa’s new book How Emotions are Made ... Can we truly feel an emotion before we can name it? ... Is it true that the !Kung people feel no fear? ... Fear in the body, the brain, and in concept ... Do animals have emotions as we know them? ... Lisa’s advice for young scientists: Keep it empirical ...

The search for significance in our lives ... How to embrace non-perfectionism ... How much meaning in life is enough? ... Should social norms inform our sense of meaning? ... Iddo's take-home message: Don't be cruel to yourself ...

Bob: Life was suffering before modernity, too ... John: Mindfulness meditation is morally neutral ... How attribution biases make war possible ... Is the path to enlightenment for everyone? ... Why Bob doubts that pure enlightenment has been achieved ... Morality matters, even inside the Matrix ...

Superstring theory: Just crazy enough to be true? ... Why Einstein disliked quantum physics ... Welcome to the multiverse! ... Could an interventionist god in theory exist? ... Einstein’s determinism and “block time” ... The “stuff” that makes reality real ...

How Ted's Story of Your Life became Arrival ... Experiential and theoretical grounds for determinism ... If the future is set… Why bother? ... The Predictor—an imagined device that will freak you out ... Wormholes and time travel ... Are free will and determinism compatible? ...

Bob’s and Massimo’s complementary new books ... Bob and Massimo give Buddhist and Stoic advice on dealing with regret ... Buddhist and Stoic recipes for reducing anxiety ... Using meditative practices to fight ADD ... Building resilience, maintaining compassion ... The upside of distraction ...

Gil’s new book, The Buddha before Buddhism ... Reaching peace by letting go completely ... Why the Buddha didn’t care about religious purity ... Practical advice for letting go ... Buddhism and civic discourse ...

Dan and Bob debate the Buddhist idea that the "self" doesn’t exist ... Bob’s brush with a “not-self” experience ... Is it bad to transcend human nature? ... What is “the self”, anyway? ... Do our moral intuitions mislead? ...

Daniel: Aim for enlightenment (even if you’ll never reach it) ... Levels of Buddhist awakening ... Daniel assesses Bob’s level of spiritual attainment ... Trump as an affront to Buddhism ... The awakened sociopath ... Daniel’s enlightened view of Trumpism ... How to leverage anger wisely ...