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The Paradox of Identical Twins and What It Reveals About the Psychology of Personal Identity and the Cult of Personality

The Paradox of Identical Twins and What It Reveals About the Psychology of Personal Identity and the Cult of Personality

“The way we treat identical twins is strikingly similar to the way we treat celebrities.”

The Science of How the Universe Will End, in a Poetic Animation

The Science of How the Universe Will End, in a Poetic Animation

The lyrical symmetry of how the cosmos was born, how it will die, and what to make of the mystery in between.

Umberto Eco’s Advice to Writers

Umberto Eco’s Advice to Writers

“If we think that our reader is an idiot, we should not use rhetorical figures, but if we use them and feel the need to explain them, we are essentially calling the reader an idiot. In turn, he will take revenge by calling the author an idiot.”

35-Year-Old Emerson’s Extraordinary Harvard Divinity School Address on the Divine Transcendence of Nature

35-Year-Old Emerson’s Extraordinary Harvard Divinity School Address on the Divine Transcendence of Nature

In praise of the sentiment through which the soul comes to know itself.

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