A physicist’s letter of complaint “I have become Time, the destroyer of your desire to do physics.” Bhagavad Gita, approximate translation Every child knows what time is. It’s literally everywhere. Nothing makes sense without it. No one can even imagine…
“When one understands the causes, all vanished images can easily be found again in the brain through the impression of the cause. This is the true art of memory…” Rene Descartes, Cogitationes privatae. Close your eyes (bad opening phrase when…
How much information do you need to build a human being and, more specifically, a human brain? After all, we are by far the most complex species on the planet. To take it up a notch, some of our brains…
Photo by Stephen Radford on Unsplash Why did you click on this post? Because of the title? Because of the picture of an explosion that will be absolutely unrelated to the content of this article? Did you even consciously decide…
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, — My friend, you would not tell with such high zest…