Jessica Xiao
Posts by Jessica Xiao (page 9)
Hey, Trevor Noah—We Don’t All Need a God
When my boyfriend and I first started watching Trevor Noah’s stand-up comedy in late 2014, it was like discovering a hidden gem. Our inside... Read More
Why Humanists Are Still Misunderstood: CNN’s Documentary on Atheists in America
Last Tuesday’s CNN special was a forty-five minute feature on atheists in America that advertised itself as an exposé of “how the other side... Read More
Astrobiology and the Religious Imagination
What do religion and astrobiology have to do with each other? At first glance, not much. But they both concern the meaning of life,... Read More
Film Review: Chappie Is a Refreshingly Not-Set-in-America Imagining of a Technological Future
A coming-of-age story about a sentient robot, South African director Neill Blomkamp’s latest film, Chappie, is a sorely underrated and original film that leaves... Read More
On Perverts and Terrorists: The Semantics of ISIS
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But is ISIS, ISIL, IS, SIC, or Da’ish as Islamic? At the February 18... Read More
Out of this World Relationship Dilemma—Would He Leave Me for Mars?
When the list of finalists for the Mars One mission was released on February 16, I was relieved to see that my boyfriend wasn’t... Read More
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Darwinian Evolution Everywhere
Charles Darwin, in the last paragraph of the introductory chapter to his magnum opus On the Origin of Species, wrote: No one ought to... Read More