Future-Day Saints: Abrahamic Astronomy, Anthropological Futures, and Speculative Religion

Multiple sclerosis in Latter Day Saints (Mormons).

BACKGROUND Compliant members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS, Mormons) have a low incidence of heart and lung disease that may relate to their healthy life style. We wished to determine whether multiple sclerosis (MS) was less frequent in this religious body. METHODS To ascertain this, diagnostic and treatment coding records were accessed from the Deseret Mutual Benefi...

The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category

Everyday Futures : Speculative Thinking in the Domestic Sphere

Future Branches { beyond Speculative Execution

The performance and hardware complexity of superscalar architectures is hindered by conditional branch instructions. When conditional branches are encountered in a program, the instruction fetch unit must rapidly predict the branch predicate and begin speculatively fetching instructions with no loss of instruction throughput. Speculative execution increases hardware cost, since speculative inst...

RELIGION AND FUTURE DISCOUNTING 2 Religious People

The propensity for religious belief and behavior is a universal feature of human societies, but religious practice often imposes substantial costs upon its practitioners. This suggests that during human cultural evolution, the costs associated with religiosity might have been traded off for psychological or social benefits that redounded to fitness on average. One possible benefit of religious ...