In 2016, in Physical Review Letters, new research was published that was quietly shocking. "Scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have squeezed water molecules between hexagonal beryl ...

The biochemist Nick Lane raises a lot of interesting points in this interview with Quanta magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-biochemists-view-of-lifes-origin-reframes-cancer-and-aging-20220808/ Here is my favorite passage: This ties into some of your ideas about ...

The perception of motion is a funny thing. It requires a frame of reference. When you are on a train, the trees appear to move. But are they, really? Instead ...

Our brains create the images we see. We know this intellectually, but we have not yet fully absorbed its implications. Donald Hoffman likens what we see to a desktop interface. ...

This entire video by PBS Space Time is terrific, but I’m going to cue it to the part that deals with identity, causality, and seeing life as a story or ...

Another succinct, elegant, brilliant video from PBS Space Time. The term “rest mass” is redundant. Whenever we measure mass, we assume we are speaking of mass at rest. But what ...