New Post from BiteofanAppleWith Flying Pen, When Mortals SleepIt was a sweltering August day. I made my way across the promenade, and through the bustling crowd, to a small line forming outside the Timkin Art Museum. Inside, I stumbled on Pieter Bru...
New Post from BiteofanAppleWhat Is Potential Energy, Really?As with seemingly every other man my age, I've taken up running to stay fit. Your metabolism slows as you age and what used to come for free with youth now takes time and deliberate effort...
New Post from BiteofanAppleFriendship Is An Exponential FunctionWhat allows you to make friends and to keep them? Being a social person helps with making friends, surely. As does putting in the effort to be a good friend. But I'm sure we've all had...
New Post from BiteofanAppleThe True Expense Of NatureIt's Saturday morning, and you have no plans. Perhaps your schedule happened to line up that way, perhaps the kids are gone, or maybe it's just luck. Regardless, it's glorious. You bask in the glo...
New Post from BiteofanAppleA Field Guide To LearningMay 11, 2026Let's say you're someone who wants to learn about an academic discipline. Perhaps advanced Physics, Sociology, Early-Modern History, or Cognition Science. Of course, there's YouTube pop...
New Post from BiteofanAppleWhy You Can't Write That BookI could do that, I just need more time.In life we are constantly wishing we had more of something: time, money, friends, energy, etc., and we develop plans to try and meet these goals. We alter...
New Post from BiteofanAppleMailing Things Is FunSometimes I can't tell if I'm discovering a cool new hobby, or just getting old. Regardless, today I come to you with a tale of a little endeavor of mine.In early 2020, a family member took a job far f...
New Post from BiteofanAppleTake Better Notes, By HandResearching a topic is hard, because not only are you trying to puzzle together the causes and effects of a given problem or historical series of events, you're also looking out carefully for lea...
New Post from BiteofanAppleYou Have Access To Almost Any BookI read a fair bit of non-fiction that spans a number of different genres. But the trouble with non-fiction is that it never answers a question without raising further questions. Non-fictio...
New Post from BiteofanAppleLoad-Bearing WallsMarch 10, 2026We like to believe that we can predict the future. We believe it because it's true, at least in part. Physical systems obey known physical laws and so even fairly complex systems can be unde...
