In high school, Daniel Stein built a solar-powered car and drove it across the country. “I got to see the possibility of doing something… | Continue reading
Everyone loves a good optical illusion. Most people first come across them as kids, and are instantly transfixed. And most of us never… | Continue reading
What should you do if you are worried about your popularity? Relax. Despite what Facebook tells us, it’s the quality of friendships… | Continue reading
On March 11, 2021, the auction house Christie’s sold a work by an American graphic designer, Michael Winkelmann, a.k.a. Beeple,… | Continue reading
What should you do if you are worried about your popularity? Relax. Despite what Facebook tells us, it’s the quality of friendships… | Continue reading
When I was about 6, my mind did something wondrous, although it felt perfectly natural at the time. When I encountered the name of… | Continue reading
On March 11, 2021, the auction house Christie’s sold a work by an American graphic designer, Michael Winkelmann, a.k.a. Beeple,… | Continue reading
When I was about 6, my mind did something wondrous, although it felt perfectly natural at the time. When I encountered the name of… | Continue reading
Requiring vaccine passports would not violate any individual rights that a well-ordered society would choose to defend.Photograph… | Continue reading
We were all very tired. My crew and I had been tracking nautiluses off tiny Ndrova Island in Papua New Guinea for close to a week.… | Continue reading
The idea of cryogenically freezing a person to preserve their body until many years into the future has long been a staple of science-fiction… | Continue reading
We were all very tired. My crew and I had been tracking nautiluses off tiny Ndrova Island in Papua New Guinea for close to a week.… | Continue reading
Last month, having returned to Earth aboard his Blue Origin spacecraft, Jeffrey Bezos, the chairman of Amazon and, as of this month,… | Continue reading
The idea of cryogenically freezing a person to preserve their body until many years into the future has long been a staple of science-fiction… | Continue reading
Last month, having returned to Earth aboard his Blue Origin spacecraft, Jeffrey Bezos, the chairman of Amazon and, as of this month,… | Continue reading
We were all very tired. My crew and I had been tracking nautiluses off tiny Ndrova Island in Papua New Guinea for close to a week.… | Continue reading
We were all very tired. My crew and I had been tracking nautiluses off tiny Ndrova Island in Papua New Guinea for close to a week.… | Continue reading
Last month, having returned to Earth aboard his Blue Origin spacecraft, Jeffrey Bezos, the chairman of Amazon and, as of this month,… | Continue reading
The idea of cryogenically freezing a person to preserve their body until many years into the future has long been a staple of science-fiction… | Continue reading
It turned out that, yes, the participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been… | Continue reading
Epidemics have a way of making one wonder about death. To put it plainly, in the raw form it takes as it first rises from our hearts:… | Continue reading
It turned out that, yes, the participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been… | Continue reading
It turned out that, yes, the participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been… | Continue reading
Panpsychists look at the many rungs on the complexity ladder of nature and see no obvious line between mind and no-mind.Illustration… | Continue reading
Researching my upcoming book on film, Suddenly Something Clicked, I was struck by something that had not occurred to me in 50 years… | Continue reading
Epidemics have a way of making one wonder about death. To put it plainly, in the raw form it takes as it first rises from our hearts:… | Continue reading
As I write this at the end of July, 79 wildfires are burning across 12 states in the U.S. In Oregon, a mammoth fire has engulfed some… | Continue reading
As I write this at the end of July, 79 wildfires are burning across 12 states in the U.S. In Oregon, a mammoth fire has engulfed some… | Continue reading
Researching my upcoming book on film, Suddenly Something Clicked, I was struck by something that had not occurred to me in 50 years… | Continue reading
Epidemics have a way of making one wonder about death. To put it plainly, in the raw form it takes as it first rises from our hearts:… | Continue reading
Panpsychists look at the many rungs on the complexity ladder of nature and see no obvious line between mind and no-mind.Illustration… | Continue reading
Panpsychists look at the many rungs on the complexity ladder of nature and see no obvious line between mind and no-mind.Illustration… | Continue reading
Stable cultural forms do not have to result from close replication; they can emerge continuously out of subtle changes.Illustration… | Continue reading
We all live in two worlds: a world outside of ourselves containing things that others can also see and hear and touch, and a world… | Continue reading
Stable cultural forms do not have to result from close replication; they can emerge continuously out of subtle changes.Illustration… | Continue reading
Stable cultural forms do not have to result from close replication; they can emerge continuously out of subtle changes.Illustration… | Continue reading
Japanese cuisine is so varied and refined that it’s hard to happen upon something unpleasant to the palate. My personal procedure… | Continue reading
One of my favorite walkways in the world spans a beautiful fig in the village of Falealupo on the island of Savai’i, Samoa, formerly… | Continue reading
We all live in two worlds: a world outside of ourselves containing things that others can also see and hear and touch, and a world… | Continue reading
One of my favorite walkways in the world spans a beautiful fig in the village of Falealupo on the island of Savai’i, Samoa, formerly… | Continue reading
Japanese cuisine is so varied and refined that it’s hard to happen upon something unpleasant to the palate. My personal procedure… | Continue reading
We all live in two worlds: a world outside of ourselves containing things that others can also see and hear and touch, and a world… | Continue reading
One of my favorite walkways in the world spans a beautiful fig in the village of Falealupo on the island of Savai’i, Samoa, formerly… | Continue reading
Japanese cuisine is so varied and refined that it’s hard to happen upon something unpleasant to the palate. My personal procedure… | Continue reading
We all live in two worlds: a world outside of ourselves containing things that others can also see and hear and touch, and a world… | Continue reading
In 2018, a German newspaper asked me if I would be interested in having a conversation with the philosopher Emanuele Coccia, who had… | Continue reading
When musicians have chemistry, we can feel it. There’s something special among them that’s missing when they perform alone. Anyone… | Continue reading
It’s now fashionable, when something has you mildly obsessed, to say that it is “living rent-free in your head.” Well, in my… | Continue reading