Whenever I go to my local grocery store, I check the front page of the newspapers to get a pulse of what the chattering class is chattering about (in print anyway). One New York Times cover story in particular caught my attention: “My Genome, Myself: Seeking Clues in DNA,” an excellent article by […]
I’ll have more to write about his later after I read the full journal article, but appears that researchers have found evidence that dust-particles in space are forming into helical structures which exhibit characteristics associated with living things. In other words, inorganic life.
Some questions that naturally arise are: what is life? What is consciousness, and […]
So I’ve finally gotten around to writing an About page for this site to give it all a bit more context. In it, I’ve posed a number of questions that I think are fairly interesting, but I was wondering, what are some of the questions that people who are not me grapple with? I feel […]