For his Wisconsin Public Radio program “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” Steve Paulson has put together a six-hour series on the science of consciousness. “There’s a lot of neuroscience in the series,” he says, “but also some segments that deal explicitly with the spiritual dimensions of consciousness. Our website has all the audio, plus lots of extra content, including our specially commissioned comic book on consciousness.”

For his Wisconsin Public Radio program “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” Steve Paulson has just put together a show on Physics & The Big Questions. In the first segment, he talks with Lawrence Krauss and Marcelo Gleiser about science, philosophy, religion, and the meaning of “nothing.”

Now 10 years after the first draft of the human genome was finished, Richard Dawkins looks at some of the benefits and (sometimes shocking) discoveries we’ve seen as a result.

Check out this snippet from a new report by researchers at the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, who surveyed people who use the Internet as a news source:

Asked what subjects they would like to receive more coverage, 44 percent said scientific news and discoveries, 41 percent said religion and spirituality, 39 percent said health and medicine, 39 percent said their state government, and 38 percent said their neighborhood or local community.