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Dec 7, 2021
evo devo oh no
On: Thinking about Evolution Today and Science Friction Last week, I was busy helping Helen, one of my PIs, organize a science exhibition...
Jul 14, 2021
Over and Done
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...
Jun 18, 2021
Liberty for the people
“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.” EC Guevara Ulysse, 1982 by Agnès Varda I find great...
Jun 15, 2021
Breaking taboos
Woman Descending the Staircase (Frau die Treppe herabgehend), 1965 by Gerhard Richter Challenging taboos can be a cathartic experience....
Jun 6, 2021
Lion Speaks
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...
Aug 18, 2020
Cosmic Consciousness
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...
Jul 12, 2020
Opening the Doors of Perception
Any explorative complexity – painting, writing poetry, robbing banks, being a dictator, and so forth, takes you to that place where...
Jun 13, 2020
Battle of the Memes
Ju-jutsu (or “the art of suppleness”), as its name implies is based upon the principal of softness or elasticity to hardness or...
Jun 1, 2020
The Playbook
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...
May 17, 2020
These Genes Don’t Fit Me No More
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...