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Katie Mack

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Katie is a theoretical cosmologist who holds the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at Perimeter Institute. Her academic research investigates dark matter, vacuum decay and the epoch of reionisation. Katie is also a popular science communicator who participates in social media and regularly writes for Scientific American, Slate, Sky & Telescope, Time and Cosmos. She is the author of the book “The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

Katie is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope. She has a naturalistic worldview, saying here: “I had a lot of trouble believing in anything that I didn’t have strong evidence for. It comes back to the scientific view point maybe. I didn’t have religious experiences. I didn’t have a feeling of connection with the divine. I wanted that feeling of connection … I found the practice very meaningful, but I never got the faith.”

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Disorientation, a poem by Katie

Latest work

Grid of squares - each one showing the title of a page covering the possible implications of a sentientist worldview - from politics to culture to agriculture

Teaching the Sentientism Worldview

This short article aims to introduce the Sentientism worldview ("evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings" to the Religions and Worldview education community in the UK.
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Teaching the Sentientism Worldview

This short article aims to introduce the Sentientism worldview ("evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings" to the Religions and Worldview education community in the UK.
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A Truly Humane Education – Laura Chepner – The Vegan Society’s Education Officer – Sentientism Ep:194

Laura is Education Officer at The Vegan Society. A conversation about Sentientism's "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings".
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Is Veganic the Future of Farming? “We grow plants using plants” – Jimmy Videle – Sentientism Ep:192

Jimmy Videle is a farmer, naturalist and researcher. He is the author of The Veganic Grower’s Handbook. A Sentientism conversation about "what's real?", "who matters?" and "how to make a better world?"
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