Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content.

In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

... people notice differences and expect every difference in form to convey some difference in meaning.