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Math Is Erotic
The most shining moment of my education as a physics major at UC Santa Barbara came in the final lecture of an upper-division course on electricity and magnetism. We had learned...
Ready for Weirdness
Living in Wonder:Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Ageby rod dreherzondervan, 288 pages, $29.99 Is life worth living? “It depends on the liver.” Thus did William James pose...
The Upside of Risk
It is forty-eight degrees Fahrenheit and sweat is dripping down my back. My goggles are steamed up and it is hard to see. I am on a tract of...
The Rise of Antihumanism
In 2009, one of Google’s self-driving cars came to an intersection with a four-way stop. It came to a halt and waited for other cars to do the same...
