-- Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics - Kevin Hartnett, WIRED, Dec. 17, 2017 ( Read more... )

-- Gone Baby Gone - Rachel Monroe, The New Republic, Sept. 19, 2017 ( Read more... )

-- The Rock-Star Appeal of Modern Monetary Theory - Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, The Nation, May 8, 2017 ( Read more... )

Is the historical prevalence of English left-to-right script the reason so much of our present understanding of physics is deterministic and static and simply states in the face of uncertainty that we simply don’t know all of the variables yet to predict an event? I’m thinking of Arrival again and the Sapor-Whorf hypothesis but also nudged once ( Read more... )

-- The Attorney Fighting Revenge Porn - Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, Dec. 5, 2016 ( Read more... )

At some point--I forget when exactly--I began altering the structure of my subjunctive clauses. The verb would precede the noun, so that the sentence would become someone palindromic. I wish I could pinpoint the exact moment where French altered my English, but that shift signaled the shift I remember most. I love language. Not just languages, but ( Read more... )

-- How to Get Another Thorax - Steven Rose, London Review of Books, Sept. 8, 2016 ( Read more... )

-- This Is Your Brain On God - Jack Hitt, Wired, Nov. 1, 1999 ( Read more... )

-- My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard - Shane Bauer, Mother Jones, Jul./Aug. 2016 ( Read more... )

And now it seems I've developed a crush on Siddhartha Mukherjee.