Heading west on US Highway 56 across Kansas in June. People complain about boredom while slogging across Kansas in June, or any other…

We are endowed with these marvelous brains that excel at everything from oboe-making to calculus to needle point to wind surfing, plus we invented…

Intelligence tests are stupid because they determine only one sliver of the intelligence sphere, and the bit these tests measure are the very easiest…

Thinking. It’s a messy process, this Thinking thing. It’s easy to get lost in the word forest. There are no trails, and it’s teeming…

We generally devote our astounding global brain power to just getting our little selves through the little day, so any discussion of how we…

Except you don’t “decide” or “plan” anything.  Decisions and planning are functions of the mind, and the body processes all this information more or…

Many of us, though, may weary of the rich lives we have the opportunity to claim, and sometimes envy other life forms.

The wolf, for…

Here’s the link:  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/magazine/evolution-gene-microbiology.html

It recounts how an ornery, indefatigable, iconoclastic, highly original rebel researcher, a guy named Carl Woese, made the case that (to put…

How did this happen?  How did nothing become something?

Well, every story contains the story of how it unspooled.  Some stories-of-the-story can be so straightforward…

Turns out that we and words, surprisingly, do share characteristics that shape our destiny:

1.]  Words have a body and a space and a form…