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It Was There, Then It Wasn’t
Homoioteleuton, Homoioarcton, and the Fragility of Copying And now for something completely different, a gift for the real word nerds. There’s even almost a rhyme there. I came across this when talking about how much the Bible and other ancient… Continue reading
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How Is Any of This Designed?
When “intelligent design” starts to look like a series of workarounds I end up in conversations with creationists more often than you might expect, usually in the margins of other topics, where the assumptions are already baked in. Life, the… Continue reading
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The Philosophy of Eeyore
Somewhere between a cedar swamp and a drizzle that cannot quite commit to becoming rain, Eeyore waits beside a stick house that may or may not stay standing. He is not hopeful. He is not ambitious. He is not impressed.… Continue reading
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From Energy to Everything
A Threads exchange on beginnings, symmetry, and the limits of perspective And now something again from Threads. The thread started the way a lot of good ones do, with a question that feels both simple and impossible to finish. Gintama… Continue reading
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When Collective Language Masks Control
The recurring pattern of oligarchal rule The prompt that started this was posted as a simple question on Threads, “When Oligarchs build structures that ultimately belong to the government, could that be called communism?” It drew me in less because… Continue reading
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The Accident That Preserved a World
The Taung Child and the Unpredictability of Fossilization It started, as so many modern arguments do, with a comment thread. The claim was blunt: fossils “cannot be formed over millions of years” because, under “NORMAL conditions,” bodies simply decompose or… Continue reading
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Four Ways to Misplace the Observer
Anthropic Thinking Between Cosmology and Philosophy I grew up in New York, where the cold is visible when you breathe and maple syrup is gold. I did not think in cosmological terms then, only in the register of sidewalks and… Continue reading
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The Little Man Theory
A Narrative Essay in Minor Keys I have always been suspicious of great men. Not because they do not exist, but because the stories about them are too clean, too self-satisfied. The “Great Man Theory” of history; Carlyle’s tidy assertion… Continue reading
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Nothing about This Is Irreducible
Diversity, homology, and the slow architecture of bacterial flagella I didn’t set out to write a counter-argument in the abstract. I started with a thread, the kind that spirals when you drop a stack of papers into it and let… Continue reading
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Truth, Repetition, and the Soft Collapse of Meaning
How Orwell’s concept of doublespeak echoes in modern political language I keep coming back to the language in Orwell’s 1984, not because it is distant, but because it keeps insisting it isn’t. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”… Continue reading
