Morality Without Deity - October 6, 2024

Dark Anything - August 4, 2024

Strange New Energies - July 14, 2024

Why the Moon - April 14, 2024

Quantum Entanglement and Other States of Mind - March 31, 2024

Visions of God - March 24, 2024

Proxies - March 3, 2024

According to Their Nature - February 18, 2024

Slightly Aspergic - February 5, 2023

The Beam in Your Eye - January 15, 2023

On Science - November 13, 2022

Advanced Technological Civilizations - September 25, 2022

The Secret of Evolution - May 8, 2022

Boredom - May 1, 2022

Ultimate Reality - February 6, 2022

Transitions and End States - December 19, 2021

Nothing on My Mind, Again - May 23, 2021

Living with Ambiguity - May 16, 2021

Predicting the Future - May 9, 2021

The Rising Curve - May 2, 2021

Understanding Alien Psychology - April 25, 2021

Understanding Alien Technology - April 18, 2021

Things Worth Believing - April 11, 2021

Proof of Alien Life - April 4, 2021

Higher Power - February 7, 2021

We Are Life - January 31, 2021

Actions and Consequences - January 3, 2021

BC and BCE - December 27, 2020

Life Without Fingernails - December 13, 2020

Modeling Nature - October 11, 2020

Counterclockwise - September 6, 2020

Thingness and Nothingness - August 23, 2020

AI and Personality - August 16, 2020

Without the Option - July 5, 2020

Seeding the Stars - June 14, 2020

Harry Potter’s Broom - March 15, 2020

A Material World - March 1, 2020

Ancient Computers - February 23, 2020

Flying Cars - February 16, 2020

Memory and Imagination - January 12, 2020

Writing Ourselves into a Box - December 29, 2019

Chaos vs. Predictability - December 15, 2019

God and the U.S. Constitution - October 13, 2019

The Myth of Powered Armor - October 6, 2019

Where Are They? - September 15, 2019

Alive by Two Seconds - August 4, 2019

The First Rule of Biology - July 28, 2019

That Apple Story - June 30, 2019

On Rational Suicide - June 6, 2019

Wisdom and Ambiguity - May 5, 2019

On Quitting - April 28, 2019

AI and Emotion - April 14, 2019

Belief vs. Knowledge - April 7, 2019

Creation Stories - March 24, 2019

Warp Drive - March 17, 2019

Gravity - February 10, 2019

Connecting Minds - January 27, 2019

That Voice in Your Head - December 9, 2018

What Is Good? - November 11, 2018

Mind Games - October 21, 2018

Tracing Evolution Backwards - August 26, 2018

Thinking With Our Skin - August 19, 2018

Keeping Busy - August 12, 2018

New Kids on the Block - August 5, 2018

Living Behind the Veil - July 29, 2018

Seeing Ourselves in Alien Eyes - July 22, 2018

Shortcuts to Reality - July 15, 2018

Still Questioning Gravity - July 8, 2018

Contamination Everywhere - June 24, 2018

Predicting the Future - May 27, 2018

The Moon and Beyond - May 20, 2018

The Original Jedi Mind Trick - May 13, 2018

Biological Nanotech - May 6, 2018

One True Religion - April 8, 2018

Death Is All Around - March 18, 2018

The Meaning of Life, Again - March 11, 2018

Don’t Know Much About Cosmology - February 25, 2018

Learning as a Form of Evolution - December 10, 2017

Birdsong Runs in Families - August 27, 2017

AI and Life - August 20, 2017

Platonic Forms in Everyday Life - August 13, 2017

Could DNA Evolve? - July 16, 2017

About Nothing - June 25, 2017

A Game for Gentlemen - June 4, 2017

The God Molecule - May 28, 2017

Wolves and Dogs - May 14, 2017

Rules for Alien Life - March 19, 2017

The Future of Self-Driving Cars - March 12, 2017

Something Outside Yourself - February 19, 2017

The Practical Kōan – February 12, 2017

Between Perception and Reaction - January 8, 2017

At the Edge of Science - November 20, 2016

Excess Spirit - November 13, 2016

Unique or Ubiquitous? - October 30, 2016

Investing in the Future - October 23, 2016

A Child’s Science in Baseball - October 16, 2016

Cruel Fate - September 11, 2016

My GO! Button - September 4, 2016

Rational Thoughts on Suicide - August 14, 2016

Excess Energy - July 24, 2016

Locked In and Locked Out - July 3, 2016

A World Without Numbers - June 5, 2016

My Take on Voice Hearing - May 15, 2016

Fixed in Time - March 6, 2016

The Real Prime Mover - February 14, 2016

Matters of Faith - February 7, 2016

Is Science Perfect? - January 3, 2016

My Problem with Math - December 27, 2015

After the Wheel - December 13, 2015

The First Great Revolution - December 6, 2015

Phlogiston, Aether, and Dark Matter - November 29, 2015

A Spectrum of Self-Awareness - November 22, 2015

Vegetable Vampires - November 15, 2015

Perception vs. Reality - August 23, 2015

Your Buddha Nature - August 2, 2015

Building Our World - July 12, 2015

The Truth About Personal Honesty - July 5, 2015

The Wages of Immortality - June 7, 2015

The Nameless God - May 31, 2015

Gods and Angels - May 3, 2015

Reduced Instruction Set Arithmetic - April 26, 2015

How Important is Race? - April 19, 2015

Can Evolution Be Disproved? - April 12, 2015

Hierarchies of Learning - March 29, 2015

Why Human Beings Are Special - March 8, 2015

Intelligence or Consciousness? - February 8, 2015

The Roots of Religious Anger - February 1, 2015

Information Value of the Zipper - January 18, 2015

Hooray for Technology - January 4, 2015

Brothers Under the Exoskeleton - December 28, 2014

Look Out Among the Stars - November 16, 2014

Between Life and Not-Life - November 9, 2014

A God I Can Believe In - October 19, 2014

Continuing Mysteries of the Genome - October 12, 2014

The Impermanence of Things - October 5, 2014

Hostile Intelligence - August 24, 2014

Accidents and Evolution - August 17, 2014

The Triumph of Intelligence - July 27, 2014

Knowing and Believing - July 20, 2014

Where Are They? - July 6, 2014

Science and Computer Modeling - June 29, 2014

A Latent Belief in Absolutes - June 22, 2014

As Immortal as It Gets - June 15, 2014

The Chemistry of Control - May 11, 2014

The Zen of the Machine - May 4, 2014

The Point of Evolution - April 27, 2014

The Illusion of Self - April 6, 2014

Magical Thinking and Engineering Insight - March 16, 2014

Coffee Took Us to the Moon - February 23, 2014

Seeding the Stars With Dirty Snowballs - February 16, 2014

Shades of Gray - January 26, 2014

Maybe It Was the Butterfly - January 12, 2014

The Years Rush By - January 5, 2014

Believer or Seeker? - December 29, 2013

Fun with (Negative) Numbers - November 3, 2013

Perhaps with a Whimper - September 22, 2013

Not an Arms Race - September 15, 2013

Evolution as Adaptation - September 1, 2013

The Flowering of Life - August 25, 2013

Enigmas of the Big Bang - August 18, 2013

Emergent Properties - August 11, 2013

Communicating with Aliens - July 28, 2013

The Enlightenment and Easy Answers - July 14, 2013

The Unriddling of Quantum Bayesianism – June 9, 2013

A New God for the Scientific Age – May 26, 2013

Death is Nothing – April 28, 2013

Information Saturation – March 24, 2013

Scientific Triumphalism and Militant Atheism – March 10, 2013

Understanding the Universe – March 3, 2013

Evolution and Intelligent Design – February 24, 2013

If You Can Believe … – February 17, 2013

On Valuing Equanimity – February 10, 2013

Three Things We Don’t Know About Physics (II) – January 6, 2013

Three Things We Don’t Know About Physics (I) – December 30, 2012

Asymmetry and Imbalance - December 9, 2012

In the Palm of Your Hand - October 21, 2012

System Architecture, System Culture - August 26, 2012

Public Mind, Private Mind - August 19, 2012

Gautama and the Godfather - August 5, 2012

My Idea of Heaven - July 22, 2012

Schrödinger’s World - June 3, 2012

Awake at 3 a.m. - May 20, 2012

Mahatma Teaching - April 29, 2012

Listening for ET - April 15, 2012

What I Believe - March 25, 2012

Self-Control and Commitment - March 11, 2012

Trust No One - December 18, 2011

Seduced by Numbers - November 27, 2011

The Meaning of Life - October 9, 2011

The Worlds We Share - August 14, 2011

The World We Live In - August 7, 2011

Labels as a Way of Life - July 31, 2011

The Age of Intermediates - July 24, 2011

Manifest Destiny in Space - July 17, 2011

Abracadabra - July 3, 2011

One Magic Trick - June 19, 2011

Success as a Trap - June 12, 2011

Energy Source To Be Identified - May 29, 2011

Morality Without Religion - May 8, 2011

More Thoughts on UFOs - May 1, 2011

One True Religion - April 15, 2011

The Myth of Terraforming – March 27, 2011

SIPRE as a Way of Life – March 13, 2011

Where Do Aliens Come From? - March 6, 2011

Gutenberg and Automation – February 20, 2011

Anosognosia and Objectification – January 30, 2011

Cancer as an Evolutionary Response – January 2, 2011

“Gene Deserts” and the Future of Medicine – December 5, 2010

Coming at You – October 24, 2010

We Are All Cousins – October 17, 2010

Fun With Numbers (II) – September 26, 2010

Fun With Numbers (I) – September 19, 2010

DNA is Everywhere – September 5, 2010

Complexity Effects - August 1, 2010