"In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in the company of someone confident enough to stay unsure (that is, perpetually curious)."

Marbling the waters of every ocean with their billows of black and white, orcas are Earth’s most creative and most successful apex predator. Although they are known as killer whales, they are the largest member of the dolphin family. Older than great white sharks, they hunt everything from seals a tenth their size to moose bathing in the shallows to Earth’s largest animal — the blue whale, whose tongue alone can weigh as much as a female orca. The secret to these staggering feats is not brute force but strategy and synchrony. Beneath the shimmering surface that divides us from… read article

"Nothing beats kindness... It sits quietly beyond all things."

“Fearlessness is what love seeks… Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now.”

As you might have noticed I am coming up on episode 500 of the podcast (to air in autumn 2026 or so), and my plan is to celebrate this by doing several (probably five) interviews covering topics that ...

A bold step toward a cleaner, more conscious future

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Another course at America’s Texas A&M; University has fallen foul of state policy on teaching gender, race and sexual orientation – this time a...

At the Daily Nous, my paper with Emmie and Brandon on genre ontology is among the _Heap of Links_. It’s free to download at the journal. Although Justin describes this as “open access” in the link text, that’s not quite right. Open access would mean a change to the license, which would mean free in an ongoing way. Rather, it’s only free for 90 days.1 I happen to know that it’s only free to download because Justin wrote to the editor and asked for it to be made free. It is his (commendable) policy not to put stuff that’s behind a paywall in the _Heap of Links_.2 Still, there is an open access version of the paper. The draft on my site is Green OA, available free now and whenever you’re reading this. ### Share this: * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * Click to print (Opens in new window) Print * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * 1. From whenever they started counting. By the time you read this, it will be less. 2. He read it, liked it, and wanted to link to it. Cool, cool.