On September 15, 2017, NASA engineers watched a spacecraft they had built and loved die on purpose. They had ordered its death. What does it mean to destroy something you made to protect life it could never intend to harm?
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Camus opens The Myth of Sisyphus with what is still one of the most arresting…
Carl Sagan and John Polkinghorne both stared into the same cosmos and drew opposite conclusions. Here’s the debate they never had — but absolutely should have.
From 120,000 cobbler shops before World War II to roughly 3,500 today. The decline of shoe repair is not just an industry statistic. It is a mirror held up to who we’ve become.
Abstract Occam’s Razor — the principle that entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity —…