Finding Your Way Home

Philosophy constantly invents new ways to falsely intellectualize our relationship to things that we do.

On Being an Octopus

Nothing stretches our thinking about the mind the way an octopus does.

Can We Control Disease?

Science’s victory over bacteria, viruses, and other microbes is far from assured—and we may be part of the problem.

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