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On: Thinking about Evolution Today and Science Friction Last week, I was busy helping Helen, one of my PIs, organize a science exhibition...

The Ten Largest, No. 2, Childhood, 1907 by Hilma af Klint I find myself consumed by thoughts of death, a morbid obsession that haunts me...

“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.” EC Guevara Ulysse, 1982 by Agnès Varda I find great...

Woman Descending the Staircase (Frau die Treppe herabgehend), 1965 by Gerhard Richter Challenging taboos can be a cathartic experience....

She was weary to death of mild, passive lambs and monotonous doves. If the lamb might lie down with the lion, it would be a great honor...

I would have been a huge fan of those Gaia theorists like Lovelock and Margulis had I been born an optimist. Those people really know...

Any explorative complexity – painting, writing poetry, robbing banks, being a dictator, and so forth, takes you to that place where...

Ju-jutsu (or “the art of suppleness”), as its name implies is based upon the principal of softness or elasticity to hardness or...

Your mind is the starting point of all war and strategy. A mind that is easily overwhelmed by emotion, that is rooted in the past instead...

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators…we alone on earth, can...