When COVID hit, we took the desire for life as a given. Now, have we forgotten what it means to die well? To the ancient Greeks, how you died was just as important as how you lived. Herodotus describes the happy life as: having lived virtuously, doing honor to the…

There is pressure in the sky And there’s pressure in my ears But the script is set in stone Always have to come back here Where the memory of water Haunts the pavement, making dank All the walls and all the faces Under a white sky so blank Then I…

The general consensus on the recent movie Dune is this: the movie is spectacular, and that it deserved way better music than it got. Especially considering that Hans Zimmer (Star Wars guy) wrote the score, its quality is crushingly disappointing: combining the average orchestra ensemble with cheesily “otherworldly” sounds and…

(This is all taken straight from the Greek philosopher Zeno) Point 1: Everything (at least in the mortal universe) is finite: nothing mortal can be infinite, for two infinite things cannot exist in relation to one another. Point 2: Start by considering distance. Before any given distance can be traversed, half that must be traversed, and before that, half of that, ad infinitum. Thus, in any distance, there are infinite halves, and thus there are infinite points to cross. Thus, every distance is infinite.

Governments exist for a reason. 17th-century philosopher John Locke described the beginnings of society, which created government for a specific purpose. Here’s how Locke’s story goes: in the beginning, people came together into societies, harvesting the land and trading with each other, which ended up generally benefiting everyone. As soon…

This morning, I looked on Coin Market Cap, which lists thousands of cryptocurrencies according to money invested in them. …