On September 14, 2015, LIGO detected a chirp lasting a fifth of a second. A century of theorizing became unbearable certainty. What did it cost the people who heard it?
Daniel Dennett’s Freedom Evolves argues that free will didn’t fall apart under Darwin — it was built by him. A review of one of the most important philosophy books of the last 25 years.
Long before Joan Goodwin strapped into a shuttle simulator at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, before…
Norms diner on La Cienega opened in 1957 with a cantilevered roof that promised the future. The guy washing dishes wasn’t invited to that future.
Francis Collins sequenced the human genome and then said it pointed to God. Jerry Coyne spent years publicly dismantling that claim. Here’s what the debate actually showed — and didn’t.
Everyone calls Disintegration depressing. They’re wrong. Robert Smith’s 1989 masterpiece is about refusing to give up — and 35 years later, it still sounds like nothing else.