Category Archives: Prayer

What Do Hair Salons Have to Do with Prayer, Magic, and the Development of Literacy?

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It turns out, the first complete sentence ever written by a human (at least, as of what we know now) concerned hair. New archaeological evidence — discovered in Israel in 2016 and analyzed recently — confirms that “the oldest instance of a sentence written using the alphabet is on an

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Digital Deities?

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A new study by economist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz tells us that Internet searches for “God” are way down. He notes that this is true even in cases of catastrophe: Stephens-Davidowitz “looked at the war in Ukraine, the civil war in Syria, the tsunami in Japan, and the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. In

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