Cellos are destined to be sad.  Something about their register, their resonance, the way they vibrate in that middle range between human...

We were discussing the burden of scars. And I was sharing with her the dilemma of scars, and how to deal with them.  And whether or not...

There is a commonality between science and religion and spirituality, and even life itself, which is the concept of perfect dualism....

In every moment the decision of what comes next is a matter of choosing one option out of many possible ones.  The option chosen becomes...

“We all have a purpose in this life” No, not true. “There must be a meaning to life” No there mustn't. You are a statistical...

(or, Why Consciousness Needs an Off Switch) Somewhere along the evolutionary chain, something went too far.We grew too smart. Too aware....

What does the fortress do when it discovers its own walls have hairline fractures? Not collapse.  No, that would be too generous. Too...

Look at all those people. They hunch over their laptops. They input data They output whatever it is they are outputting. They are...

When two people first meet, they create a line between them, a simple connection that represents their initial interaction.  This line...

Shakespeare wrote 38 plays Comedies, histories, and tragedies. But which ones do we remember?  What plays have become global cultural...

There is a kind of man whose name is not spoken, only summoned.When joy fails. In the aftermath. In the sweep. I am that man. The last...

You spend a lifetime breathing, loving, stressing, choosing, regretting, failing, creating.Then one day, you stop. And then you become an...

The presence of nipples on men is often treated as a quirky anatomical mystery, a leftover from evolution’s junk drawer.  But in truth,...

Suspension of disbelief is supposed to be a tool for fiction. It’s what allows us to enjoy a novel, a film, a play.  We willingly lower...

Happiness is fundamentally linked to control.  The earliest time we started to have control was when we discovered agriculture and...

Humans have always been haunted by the same question: Why are we here? Countless arguments, panels, workshops, debates have debated this...

When a nation clings too tightly to its past, it’s not pride, it’s paralysis.  Nostalgia, in this context, is a symptom.  A signal.  A...

Few are the debates that build value.  Most debates are just elaborate performances where people compete to see who can sound more...

Slavery stands as the most despicable, loathsome, shameful, and horrific blemish in human history.  It represents the absolute apogee of...

The free will debate has been raging for centuries, with philosophers and thinkers, and pseudo intellectuals split into rigid camps:...