“Aging and its evidence remain life’s most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.” Joan Didion, Blue Nights My wife and I have grown quite comfortable in discussing death—both in the abstract and in our particular cases. I highly recommend the advantages of becoming conversant about death. It’s going […]
For eliminating the scourges of racism, misogyny, nationalism and materialism, and for making our institutions of governance, education, the economy, and religion fundamentally more beneficial to the public: MEN, STEP DOWN! Thought Experiment Albert Einstein unraveled the theory of relativity as a brilliant thought experiment, not experimentally in a high-tech lab utilizing the scientific method. […]