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That First and Last Question
Half a trip around the sun was all it took before the software had exploited every vulnerability it could find, shutting…
Read issue →The Medieval Origin of the Ph.D. Dissertation
I have been on another research quest. It started with the history of Alchemy and ended in modern-day Germany.
Read issue →With Flying Pen, When Mortals Sleep
It was in that moment, reading those words, that I had a new quest. I needed to see this letter. Not a translation on…
Read issue →What 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…
Read issue →Friendship Is An Exponential Function
What allows you to make friends and to keep them? Being a social person helps with making friends, surely. As does…
Read issue →The True Expense of Nature
An exploration about how Nature makes decisions and how they may parallel our human ways.
Read issue →A Field Guide To Learning Hard Things
Want to learn a new discipline? Perhaps you've been struggling with how to start. There's lots of ways in this modern…
Read issue →Why You Can't Write That Book
Life is a constant balance of particular factors and it takes considerable skill to strike any balance at all for any…
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