Derek Beres
Derek Beres is a freelance writer. Based in Portland, Oregon, he has served in senior editorial positions at a number of tech companies and has years of experience in health, science, and music writing. He is the co-host of the Conspirituality podcast and co-author of Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracies Became a Health Threat.
Seismologists are warning about an overdue earthquake. How prepared are we?
Whether you have a fixed or growth mindset affects the quality (and future) of your relationships.
Dietary fats were demonized in the fifties due to shoddy evidence. After decades of a diet heavy in carbs and sugars, we’re finally learning the truth.
Baba Ramdev has built a $670 million company on the back of yoga’s soaring popularity. Is his ethics in alignment with yoga’s teachings?
New research shows the benefits of sixty seconds of high-intensity exercise. While the study is valid, the mentality that a minute is enough is misguided.
What’s going on in your gut is affecting your emotions and mental outlook.
Bessel van der Kolk has spent a lifetime recognizing the damaging effects of trauma…and healing them.
Mariah Walton faces a double lung and heart transplant because her parents chose faith healing over medical treatment when she was born.
Even the US Military is rethinking sit-ups, which have been shown to do more harm than good.
Some parents are diagnosing their attention-deficient children as heavenly beings thanks to Internet blogs.
Three phases in brain development led to the creation of religion. What we do with that is up to us.
Like many things in America, death is a business. And we’re not doing it well.
New research verifies that each addresses a separate cognitive domain.
Neuroscience research shows that variety is important for healthy individuals and healthy societies.
Spiritual capitalism started in the sixties. Today it has been mastered.
A DEA memo reveals that the agency is considering removing marijuana from its list of Schedule 1 substances.
A recent study shows that non-believers are more tolerant of Islam than Christians and other groups.
A recent Pew Research Study finds women to be the more religious gender worldwide.
Religious talk has been eerily quiet in the GOP race. But that doesn’t mean it’s absent.
Therapeutic research on LSD stopped in 1968. Now we’re rediscovering its value.
Nearly a quarter of Americans rely on sleeping pills—a trend that’s feeding obesity and depression levels.
Refusing to allow terminally ill patients the right to end their life is a cruel and inhumane relic of religious thinking.
Hallucinations are a feature of our brain’s hardware. Could religious visions be accounted for by this neurological phenomenon?
When Francis Bellamy penned our pledge in 1892, his focus was really on the ‘liberty and justice for all’ part.
Ra Paulette spent 20 years carving caves into soapstone mountains. His passion for the transcendent brings us back to Earth.
Understanding how to become more resilient could rely on a simple linguistic shift.
Response to the passing of Antonin Scalia has been truly bipartisan: No one’s mourning and everyone’s demanding.
We often think of willpower as mentally forging ahead. But to achieve such a mental state, our brain needs proper nourishment.
Democracy is happening like never before, and it’s exploiting our deepest fears and failures.
Our ape ancestors might give us insight into the GOP frontrunner’s sustained dominance.