Esolangs, or esoteric programming languages, highlight the hidden metaphors and conventions that structure mainstream programming.
Daniel Temkin | Sep 25
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
Blaise Agüera y Arcas | Sep 22
Samuel Jay Keyser on why repetition enchants the mind, and what evolution has to do with it.
Samuel Jay Keyser | Sep 18
Engaging in ritual for ritual’s sake only deepens nihilism.
Nolen Gertz | Sep 15
What frogs teach us about sex, science, and why biology is messier than we think.
Ambika Kamath & Melina Packer | Sep 11
An aging Earth, like an aging body, is increasingly vulnerable to heat’s fatal accidents.
James Lovelock | Sep 8
A classic critique shows how creationists’ calls for “equal time” in classrooms blurred the line between legitimate scientific debate and intellectual imposture.
Philip Kitcher | Sep 2
A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances.
Richard Cytowic | Aug 29
Women in physics have long been forced out of the field, and out of the story.
Shohini Ghose | Aug 26
Once America’s great hope, innovation culture eventually met its fiercest critics.
Matthew Wisnioski | Aug 22
The interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums.
Samuel Jay Keyser | Aug 19
An excerpt from the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist’s 1991 book “Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture.”
Slavoj Žižek | Aug 15
