Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche — The Book That Rewired My Understanding of Everything
Most people, when asked to name the single most influential book they have ever read,…
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins — A Review
Richard Dawkins does not ease you in. From the very first pages of The God…
The Quiet Debate Along the North Shore: How Cold Spring Harbor’s Eugenics Legacy Forced a Reckoning Between Science and Conscience That Theologians Saw Coming First
The Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor was science with the backing of Carnegie and Harvard. G.K. Chesterton called it wrong before the scientists did. Here’s why.
The Cream That Remembered Itself: Husserl’s Phenomenology and the Problem of Whipped Cream That Has Been Sitting Too Long
Husserl’s theory of time-consciousness says we carry the just-past in every present moment. Whipped cream collapsing back into liquid is not a chemistry problem. It’s a phenomenological crisis.
Horizontal Gene Transfer: Why Darwin’s Tree of Life Is Actually a Tangled Web
On a page in his private notebook, sometime around 1837, Charles Darwin sketched the most…
The Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter: Why the Silence of the Cosmos Might Be the Loudest Warning We’ll Ever Receive
Fourteen billion years is long enough for anything to happen. Stars have been born and…
