For an astronomical alignment to be considered archaeologically real, the alignment has to show intent.

To say that a culture reaches fluorescence is to say that a culture acts like a flower, it builds up to some monumental or beautiful peak

For thousands of years before European contact, the peoples of eastern North America have lived along the banks of the region's many rivers.

III - A mathematical construction is a mechanical physical act that is directly related to the physical act of constructing a structure.

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… and what does it have to do with a crow using a tool or the origin of life?

As humans, we live inside our little heads and we have this illusion that we are separate from the world and our bodies.

I have been wondering what to call what I’ve been writing.

Humans are excellent at seeing patterns and categorizing what they see. Some are only imagination, others form the basis of our science.

My wife and I decided to do a project together to create a collection of NFTs.

How does a technology supposedly based on the expansion of human freedom need an autocrat to force people to use it?

Oumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object.

Just what is mathematics? This is a question that would seem very easy and turns out to be very hard.

This is the techno libertarian ideal. Which will hold true? What could possibly go wrong?

Crab Apple trees were planted all over Flagstaff in the 1950s.

Radical individualism always devolves into an infantile state.

ignorance can be dangerous to those who are ignorant of their ignorance

I have been hearing the term “herd immunity” being bandied about in sometimes very dangerous ways.

Epidemics are as old as human cities, the first recorded mention is between 1200 BC and 800 BC in Babylon.

What is a metaphor? A metaphor links two seemingly disparate objects directly,