Unholy
Sam Smith’s new big song “Unholy” has been playing several times a day every single day lately and I finally opened my ears to the lyrics last time I heard…
The Land of Bir Tawil
Did you know that there is a patch of unclaimed territory on the map? A little stretch of desert that no government lays claim to? It’s right between Egypt and…
Harris vs Peterson
For a good portion of my intellectual journey, I have flirted with atheism. I have incredible respect for the arguments of Dawkins, Hitchins, and Harris. I love the work of…
A Bent Sword
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with swords. I grew up on Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and those epic sword fights. When I started to…
How To Aim
Have you ever fired a projectile or tried to put a ball in any sort of goal? Have you ever aimed at something and then worked to get closer and…
An Intimate Knowledge of Relativity
I wrote in a previous essay that Isaac Newton’s incredible understanding of physics is like a video in 720p while Albert Einstein’s understanding is like the same video in 4k.…
How Water Works
I recently responded to Neil deGrasse Tyson’s perspectives on transgenderism and then I saw another clip of him and it gave me another thought. Temperature is a spectrum. Humans created…
Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Rebuttal
Feel free to check out my full essay on gender theory "In the universe, very few things are discrete in what they are. There’s, in almost all cases, a continuum…
My Transgender Experience
I just want to start off with a disclaimer: I don’t know what society needs to do about transgenderism. It’s a complex and fraught topic with plenty of important things…
Climbing the Mountain
Right and wrong. Smart and dumb. Tall and short. Binaries are a brilliant development in human understanding. Rank ordering is tedious and inefficient, so it saves time and brainpower to…