The Lark Ascending
There is a familiar moment on any walk of reasonable length. Our sense of time undergoes an almost...
Category: Geekery
Quantum weirdness isn’t weird
If we accept objects don’t exist… There is a chair in front of me. A nice red wooden...
Progressive and radical activist training materials
** LAST UPDATED 28th APR 2021 **In the progressive, radical and activist communities there is a...
The Etymologicon
Heckling is, or once was, the process of removing the knots from wool. Sheep are notoriously...
Agency
“You the app whisperer.” “They needed something to explain my being with him in...
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Contracrostipunctus Achilles has come to visit his friend and jogging companion, the Tortoise, at...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Probability, Time and the Heat of Black HolesOne of the biggest mysteries in modern physics is...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
The Most Beautiful of Theories In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aimlessly. You...
Pacific
Three months previously, on September 3, 1949, a Geiger counter mounted in the nose of an American...
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
A few days before I flew to San Francisco to meet Adria, I posted a message on 4chan/b/ asking for...
Werner Herzog’s No-nonsense Advice to Creatives
The best advice I can offer to those heading into the world of film is not to wait for the system...
How it feels to stand among pagodas in Cambodia
Okay, so this isn’t going to give you the exact feeling of standing where I was, but I...
