When the Museum Leaves Its Walls: The Power of Traveling and Pop-Up Exhibitions in Public Spaces
Ancient armor materializes inside a Rochester gallery. A Smithsonian exhibition on American democracy sets up…
The Astronomer Who Prayed and the Astronomer Who Didn’t: The Documented Intellectual Collision Between Owen Gingerich of Harvard and Steven Weinberg of Texas That Played Out Across Three Decades of Scientific Conferences
Owen Gingerich saw God in the fine-tuned universe. Steven Weinberg saw pointlessness. Both were Nobel-caliber astronomers. Both were right about different things.
What You Think You Know Is a Story You’ve Never Questioned: A Review of On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein
[On Certainty — Ludwig Wittgenstein | Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble*] Knowledge has…
The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach: The God You Built From the Best Parts of Yourself
A review of Feuerbach’s 1841 argument that God is the outward projection of human nature — and what that costs us. Read at the Heritage Diner blog.
The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers — The Last Wall Science Hasn’t Scaled
A review of David Chalmers’ landmark 1996 book The Conscious Mind, and why the hard problem of consciousness matters more in the age of AI than ever before.
Atom by Lawrence Krauss — You Are Made of Dead Stars, and That Should Change Everything
A review of Lawrence Krauss’s Atom — the biography of an oxygen atom from the Big Bang to life on Earth, and what it means that science, not religion, tells us who we are.
