Attention all doctors, over-achieving students, and night watchmen: your lives are about to get easier. A new brand of “wakefulness” pills could soon be hitting the mainstream market. Imagine swallowing a pill at 8:00 a.m. and heading out for 22 hours of work,...
A thousand years from now, will our descendants still read works like Beowulf, Shakespearean plays, or even the Bible? Will they study any of the same mathematical concepts or scientific theories of today? If so, how will our data reach those future generations? It...
Doctor’s orders! Carrying a small human in your belly for nine month is a joyous, magical, life-changing experience. It can also hurt. A lot. Your joints swell, your whole body feels like an un-popped balloon, and muscles you never even knew existed are brought...
(Excerpt) The question of Sophie’s existence begs the question of the entire book, wherein there is not one conclusive answer. But if pushed, it can be argued that Sophie is imagined. If one were to follow Berkeley’s philosophy, then Sophie exists only because Knag...
