It is now possible to subscribe by email by clicking on the subscribe link, located at the bottom of the "meta" menu on the right side-bar. Undivided Looking can send you an email notification every time there is a new … Continue reading
Today is Thanksgiving Day (in the United States), a day set aside for us all to remember the things in life we are grateful for. Fortunately, Nicole and I started the process of gratitude earlier this week when we finished … Continue reading
Scientists must have Integrity. Because Science involves an ethical principle, the love of truth, its practice cannot be unmoored from principles of morality. A hypothesis can only be put to a fair test by a person who prefers knowing the … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I started to describe what holiness means, and someone requested that I go into more detail. One way to approach this is through the concept of the numinous, described in the classic work The Idea of … Continue reading
There's been a huge kerfuffle in the quantum gravity community since this summer, when some people here at UCSB published a paper arguing that (old enough) black holes may actually be surrounded by a wall of fire which burns people … Continue reading
