One hears a lot these days about a renaissance of religion, and much about religious fanatics, too. In his most recent essay, Gottes Eifer. Vom Kampf der drei Monotheismen (i.e. the zealous God: on the struggle of the three monotheisms), Peter Sloterdijk, a philosopher and cultural commentator, explores the questions about the sources of the strength of the belief in one God, and what effects it has on its adherents....
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All light-generating substances, as well as the oxygen they consume, stem ultimately from trapped solar energy. The pulsing points of light in the depths of our oceans are distant offspring of the sunlight. Biochemist Gottfried Schatz follows light across time and space, from the Big Bang to the ocean floor.
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