Lila Prime

Ray Nayler 's novella The Tusks of Extinction follows the consciousness of a scientist fighting elephant poaching, in her life before a...

Basically the only way I can engage with the horribleness of modernity, politics, society, economics, and human-built institutions which deg...

One of the continually fascinating and renewed interesting things about being... alive? Just about being a person , just about being , is of...

Today is the 106th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing . (Of course, at birth he was probably very bad at abstract reasoning and proofs,...

These posters mysteriously appeared on April 1 across campus. They are expressing ... something ... stridently. It's just not ...

The most delicious, frolicksomely frustrating things to think about are the problems which reference themselves. Recursion is such  a twiste...

During this lull in my professional life while I wait to hear from job applications, I am spending some extra non-research mental cycles goi...

Phew and egads! I finished rereading Infinite Jest . Relief is accompanied by psychic emptiness, a hollow longing to experience the entire ...

Context I have been slowly reading my way through the thoughtful series How To Actually Change Your Mind , which describes itself as ...

Racism is bad. We all agree on that. I want to mention two leisure activities --- the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and the movi...

Amazon will let vendors -- who own items -- post those items for sale at a fixed price. Ebay lets vendors post items for sale by auction, w...