A physics professor at M.I.T., Max Tegmark, made an extraordinary claim recently: “It is inappropriate to define our Hot Big Bang as the beginning of time, because we don’t know…
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philosophy
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“Doubt,” I once heard a teacher say, “is like having a dog on a leash. You have to know when to let it run, and when to put it back…
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Three of the most pernicious philosophies to ever come down the pike, all of American origin, have become so prevalent and pervasive that they’re allowing no space for genuine thinking,…
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Forecasts about the inevitability of catastrophic climate change at the hands of man, and social upheaval stemming from it, are becoming commonplace. Look behind the big science and small talk…
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It is the tragedy of our age that the more scientific knowledge expands, the less meaning human life has. Science simply cannot replace the religious impulse, which is distinct from…
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I pretty much lost my 20’s to depression. But I was nearly 30 before I found out what beset me in vicious cycles of abyss and functionality. It was the…
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The animal spotted me jogging up the path in the park. It stopped and turned about 100 meters ahead, and then again at 75 meters. It was the size and…
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From inside, the day is uniformly gray and dreary, as another in a long series of storms off the Pacific discharges rain and wind in northern California. But on the…