Does science increase wonder or quash it? Over a hundred years since Einstein poured the foundation for modern physics and postulated the existence of gravity waves, scientists at LEGO, I…
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thoughts on life
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Life is on the cusp of exploding with spring here. For a few minutes there is nothing except bright, diffuse light, the water flowing by, and long shoots of new…
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Twenty years ago, when I replied to the standard question, ‘what do you do?’ with ‘I do philosophy,’ I was met with blank stares. Now everyone but Marco Rubio and…
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A vulture soars by, wheels and circles a few times. The sight of it as the mind enters a meditative state opens the gates of perception to beauty again. Strange…
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Here’s an interesting thought experiment, inadvertently posed by the paleontologist Scott D. Sampson. It points to the core questions and insights of the evolution of consciousness in the universe.
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When do you think war began? With the first tilled fields and walled cities, or well before, in the mists of prehistoric man? Your view of when war started reflects…
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In astrophysics, as in life, it comes down to whether one feels there is some kind of intelligence operating from the beginning in the universe (without implying a Creator), or…
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The land is bathed in beauty as the sun, giving its last warmth on an ineffably clear and lovely winter’s afternoon, slides toward the horizon.