Vital Ties Colin A. Palmer *Experience hands-on fun at The

*Experience hands-on fun at The Children's Museum (Hartford) or the Discovery Museum and Planetarium (Bridgeport)

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The final group of essays consider the relation of science and religion

unflinching love of human being

Vital Ties Colin A. Palmer *Experience hands-on fun at TheVital Ties depicts an emergent form of intimacy with the dead mediated by digital technologies. In southern Australia, a game developer crafts a virtual reality experience, reuniting his best friend with an avatar of his late father. In northern California, a woman creates a smartphone app to log moments in which her deceased mother appears. In Chicago, a high school teacher visits her late brother's Facebook page, hypnotized by the shifting content