The Universe Had No Business Working: The Anthropic Principle, Fine-Tuning, and the Question Nobody Can Stop Asking
Physicists are not generally a mystical lot. They spend their careers dismantling wonder into equations,…
The Vestigial Bias: How AI Language Models Inherited the Prejudices of Their Ancestors and Why They Cannot Simply Shed Them
AI bias isn’t a bug — it’s an inheritance. Using Darwin’s concept of vestigial structures, this piece examines why bias in large language models cannot be patched at the output layer alone.
The History of Science’s Most Productive Mistake: How Phlogiston Theory Built the Experimental Infrastructure That Killed It
Phlogiston — the invisible fire-essence that doesn’t exist — produced some of the most rigorous chemistry of the 18th century. Here’s how a false theory built the tools that killed it.
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley — A Review
What George Berkeley accomplishes in three short conversations between two fictional men strolling through a…
The Evolution of Culture in Animals by John Tyler Bonner — We Are Not as Special as We Think
Culture, most people assume, is the thing that separates us from the rest of life….
The Secret of Happiness: A Review of Robert Waldinger’s “The Good Life”
In their book, “The Good Life,” Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz embark on a profound…
