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…
Why Dogs Are Better Than People
I’ve heard that sentence many times, and I heard it again yesterday, “Dogs are better than people.” But why? It actually didn’t take me too long to figure it out.…
The Marionette’s Strings
Imagine that you are in the front row at a marionette show when the puppet starts swinging out to kick you. Well, it’s just a little thing. It doesn’t hurt…
The Miracle of Mr. Beast
I’ll be honest, I had never heard of Mr. Beast about 6 months ago. I still don’t know anything about him except that he generates a lot of content, and…