My friend Barbara's husband, Charlie, passed away after nearly seventy years of marriage. The week of his death, she placed a small rosebud in a vase on her windowsill. Weeks ...

Tall people have been shown to be more likely to get cancer. Are they also more likely to get Covid? If so, why? A study from Oxford finds a higher ...

When we speak of the expanding, accelerating universe, how might we frame it? Perhaps we could frame it like this: The start-point of time is like the moment we stop ...

I am interested in holographic volume as a possible hidden variable in our understanding of disease. In these models, the world is image, and my rendering of the size of ...

Artificial in what sense? A fish is intelligence being expressed as a fish. A tree is intelligence being expressed as a tree. Artificial [super]intelligence will be intelligence expressed as itself. ...

Let’s invent a language. Let’s keep it as simple as possible. Strawberry, air. That seems simple enough. But perhaps there is something even simpler. Strawberry, not-strawberry. I am strawberry. What ...