I watched a grown man lose his mind over a parking space once. A mall car park here in Bangkok, a spot he swore he'd been waiting for, a smaller car that nipped in ahead of him.
Walter Cronkite, the American news anchor, once said that whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
The self-help shelf in any bookshop is a monument to overcomplication. Forty-seven habits, twelve rules, seven levels, a morning routine that begins at half past four and involves cold water and a gratitude journal.
Thought of the week, from Hannah Arendt: "Loneliness is not solitude. Solitude requires being alone whereas loneliness shows itself most sharply in company with others.
Quote of the day, from Friedrich Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
In July 1969, while two of his crewmates bounced around on the Moon and most of the species watched, Michael Collins flew the command module alone around the back of it.
There is a particular kind of sentence that means nothing the first time you read it, and then, years later, on an ordinary afternoon, means almost everything.
Everyone you love lives on less than a pixel There is a photograph people reach for whenever they have just lost an argument, a job, or their nerve.
Of everything in that line, the phrase people underline is "question authority." It works like a dare.
Bill "the Science Guy" Nye said this somewhere across the forty years of public work he has been performing, and the standard absorption tends to receive it as…
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, oil companies conducting exploratory drilling off the East Coast of the United States occasionally produced an unexpected and somewhat inconvenient result.
The standard cultural framing of where human creativity comes from has, on the available evidence, been organized around a particular implicit assumption.
The standard cultural framing of where life on Earth originated has, for most of the last several decades, focused on a particular set of candidate environments.
The mainstream scientific framing of consciousness has been, for most of the last century, calibrated to a particular assumption.
The wider cultural register has, on the available evidence, a particular list of films that it tends to associate with realistic depictions of space.
A new species of marine reptile, identified from fossils that have been sitting in various museum collections in North Texas and elsewhere for as long as…
