If the universe were a simulation, what would change?
Simulation arguments are usually framed as a challenge to religion. Follow the reasoning carefully and it changes the description of creation without touching the question...
Category: Crossover
Understanding
doesn't have to be
locked inside disciplines or jargon.
How the metre was decided
A unit of length was fixed by a survey that turned out to be slightly wrong, and the error is still in the number. What...
The colour that had to be manufactured
Some pigments were rare enough to change what painters could depict. A short account of how supply shaped subject matter.
Why noise-cancelling works, and what it cannot cancel
The physics is straightforward. The reason the quiet feels stranger than expected is not physics at all.
Sleep debt is not a debt
The accounting metaphor is doing a lot of work, and most of it is misleading. What recovery sleep restores, and what it does not.