Limericks & Articles
I wrote The Legend of Bell a few years ago and left it on the shelf, waiting for the stars to align. Given the events of […]
Cognitive science was once a field reserved for the most elitist of academics in their ivory towers. But thanks to democratizing institutions like NPR and a […]
The history of language is the history of humanity. It’s what separates us from the worms and the beasts. The philosopher Wittgenstein famously said that without […]
In Germany, he is something like William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton and Benjamin Franklin all rolled into one. But in America, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) enjoys […]
Last month our friend Brian Christopher mooted an artistic collaboration. The Shut Up & Draw! challenge asked artists to make one Post-It note piece of art […]
There’s a curious connection between conscience and consciousness. The capacity for guilt and remorse is a necessary condition for mindful beings. Freudians label it the superego. […]
These are strange times we live in. From one day to the next, coronavirus utterly transformed the world we live in. As every sense of comfort […]
Mental illness and poetry, they go together like child abuse and super villains. Maybe that’s why my parents tried to talk me out of pursuing the […]
Consumed by the daily enterprise of worldly survival, it’s easy to think of all the things we encounter as friends or foes, subjects or objects, threats […]