With the Texas State Board of Education continuing its debate over social studies curriculum standards this week, Shannon Bream of Fox News speaks with a group of parents from Maryland and Virginia about how much religion should be included in public school history classes.

Big Think talks with Robert Wright, who explains how religion—and its moral aspect—grew out of early human biology and traits (such as the capacity to feel disgust and revulsion); why, in our hunter-gatherer days, religion didn’t seem to be as concerned with morality as it is now; and how moral progress has been associated with the evolution of religion.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium, was on The Daily Show earlier this week talking about water on the moon, methane on Mars, and the problems with terraforming.

The latest Symphony of Science song, “The Poetry of Reality,” featuring Lawrence Krauss, Brian Greene, Jill Tarter, and Richard Dawkins, among others.