science

I remember when I first learned about the water cycle, about how it makes of our planet a living world […]

Few things have maimed the spirit of Western civilization more than the myth of our expulsion from the Garden of

“Night, when words fade and things come alive,” Little Prince author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote in his love letter to

“From Boole, with his Laws of Thought in the 1850s, to the pioneers of Artificial Intelligence at the present day,”

“To go all the way from a clone of archaebacteria, in just 3.7 billion years, to the B-Minor Mass and

Great children’s books are works of philosophy in disguise — gifts of wonder and consolation not only for the very

This is the great bewilderment: that out of a cold austere cosmos arose the roiling wonder of life, from the

Every once in a while, the curtain of the ordinary parts and we touch the miraculous — the sense that

Without chocolate, life would be a mistake — not a paraphrasing of Nietzsche he would have easily envisioned, for he