Anomalous Readings

In the philosophy of mathematics—hold on, hold on, I promise this is good—there's a perennial debate about whether numbers are real or j...

This post was inspired by a discussion I had with a couple friends awhile back. Since then, we've had a heat wave, some sort of rainless...

Near the end of the 20th century, astronomers made a remarkable breakthrough: they began to see stars. You read that right, and no one has...

In Star Trek, the Federation is a post-capitalist utopia where citizens act out of a desire to better themselves or civilization rather than...

(Spoilers for a 76 year old Isaac Asimov story, which you can read here for some reason.) "Nightfall" is one of my favorite Asi...

The eclipse is only a couple days away, so I've been checking weather reports for the last week or so hoping the forecast will be clear....

I recently finished reading The Birth of a New Physics , by I. Bernard Cohen, which describes the 17th century transition from Aristotelian ...