Fixed Menu

The most coveted items on the prison menu are salt and pepper packets.

The Mystery Of Sacagawea

She’s a headliner in Wagon Days.

Curiouser and Curiouser

Octopus adapt to changing water temperatures by altering their RNA more often than their DNA.

Showtime.

After six years of slaughter and failure to act, Trump lets fly his Tomahawks out of the blue.

Special.

Fire Beyond the Darkness Special.

Dead South

How to Cross a Field of Snow

A primer for reconnoitering the unknown.

Distant Ruins

Scientists used to scan the skies for messages from alien civilisations. Now they go looking for their ruins.

Caloric Content of Humans

Cannibalism wasn’t about the meat; it was about the mana.

How to Convince When Facts Fail

Why worldview threats undermine evidence (or you can retire and write books).

Is Matter Conscious?

Why the central problem in neuroscience is mirrored in physics.

Darwin’s Early Adopters

And community of minds.

What Does it Mean to set Your Novel at Harvard?

It means you didn’t get into M.I.T.

Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained

How French “intellectuals” ruined the West.

The Ultimate Commitment

Elon Musk: To Join SpaceX's First Mission to Mars, You Have to Be “Prepared to Die.”

Did I Study There Because of That Or...

M.I.T. is the best university in the world.

Character is Fate

When did punctuality go out of style?

How an ER Doctor Got Hooked on Fentanyl

And lost it all.

Philosophy Tool Kit

Tricks of the trade.

Social Justice Warfare at Purdue

Breaking the Western hegemony.

The Incredible Legend of the First Black Samurai

As quoted in OZY from my own book, Samurai Road.

Is Travel Writing Dead?

Of course not.

In Rwanda, a Youth Village is Walking on Sunshine.

An entire chapter in Fire Beyond the Darkness.