Dying Alone in Japan

The industry devoted to what’s left behind. As I wrote about, in Samurai Road.

What is It with the Philosophy-haters in Astrophysics and Cosmology?

Why cosmology without philosophy is like a ship without a hull.

The Real Battle of Vienna

In 1683 an Ottoman siege was repelled from the walls of Vienna. But it was far from a fight between Islam and Christendom.

David Foster Wallace

A report from the 5th-annual David Foster Wallace Conference, where the author’s most devoted readers are wondering how to approach him in 2018.

Lovers of Wisdom

He makes a cameo in Fire Beyond the Darkness.

Figures in the Sky

How cultures across the World have seen their myths and legends in the stars. All covered in the Orion's Cartwheels Quadrilogy.

Rongo Rongo

Language at the end of the world.

Joy

With pleasures so varied, we need a way to calculate delight.

The Untold Story

 Of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage.

How Tech's Richest Plan to Save Themselves After the Apocalypse

Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to escape disaster – and when it comes, they’ll leave the rest of us behind.

Water on Mars

Liquid water spied deep below polar ice cap on Mars.