One of the most pervasive and damaging imbalances of our time has become so common that it often goes unnoticed: the growing ...

"They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Have you ever wondered what causes materialism?

In January 1848, James Marshall was building a sawmill by a river near present day Sacramento when he found a piece of glowing metal on the floor, which turned out to be gold. Once rumours of the ...

Madonna may have loved living in a material world as a material girl, but a recent study shows that married couples should avoid living according to this '80s jam at all costs. Jason Carroll, BYU ...

The question: Could science abolish personalities along with God? It's actually quite easy to pick holes in the argument that science will show how consciousness and God are illusions. For ...

Despite being much-maligned, materialism is not always bad for consumers. Loneliness may cause materialism, but the opposite is not necessarily true, according to a new study. Despite being ...

A materialistic spouse increases likelihood of martial discord, study finds. Oct. 13, 2011— -- Focusing too heavily on the "for richer" part of the nuptial vows could spell disaster for a ...

Using the skin of an Amazonian fish known as tambatinga as the raw material, researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) and EMBRAPA Pecuária Sudeste—a decentralized unit of the Brazilian ...

ACCORDING TO a semi-established consensus among the intellectual elite in the West, there is no such person as God or any other supernatural being. Life on our planet arose by way of ill-understood ...