Reads tagged with “science”
The Charming Doodles Charles Darwin’s Children Left All Over the Manuscript of ‘On the Origin of Species’
From fish with legs to carrot cavalries, an endearing testament to the human life of science.
The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: A Trailblazing Exploration of Consciousness, Memory, and How Our Sense of Self Arises
“This is the very essence of memory: its self-referential base, its self-consciousness, ever evolving and ever changing, intrinsically dynamic and subjective.”
The Charter of Free Inquiry: The Buddha’s Timeless Toolkit for Critical Thinking and Combating Dogmatism
“Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor…”
The Most Beautiful Theory: Physicist Carlo Rovelli on the Aesthetic Enchantment and Scientific Impact of Einstein’s Relativity
“Ever since we discovered that Earth is round… we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us: every time we glimpse a new aspect of it, it is a deeply emotional experience.”
The Science of Why February 29 Exists and Poet Jane Hirshfield’s Ode to the Leap Day
“…the made calendar stumbling over the real as a drunk trips over a threshold too low to see.”
Rules for the Direction of the Mind: Descartes’s 12 Timeless Tenets of Critical Thinking
“We ought to give the whole of our attention to the most insignificant and most easily mastered facts, and remain a long time in contemplation of them until we are accustomed to behold the truth clearly and distinctly.”
Einstein’s Message to Posterity from the 1939 World’s Fair Time-Capsule
A piercing reminder of the choice that stands between the human capacities for good and evil.
Legendary Physicist Freeman Dyson on God, Unanswerable Questions, and Why Diversity Is the Ruling Law of the Universe
“Our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so.”
Alan Turing’s Little-Known Contributions to Biology and His Mesmerizing Hand-Drawn Diagrams of Dappling Patterns
What the Fibonacci fascinations of daisies have to do with Kandinsky and mid-century graphic design.
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