Schedules and Boundaries
When Benjamin Franklin wrote his autobiography, he made the interesting choice to include a graph that detailed his weekly schedule. In giving himself...
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EssayCast is a podcast dedicated to critical essays which I've written. I will read them, talk about them, and discuss them with others. I am a physicist, composer, and author interested in looking at the narrative of the history of ideas on our planet. I encourage commentary, critique, and collaboration.
Altruism and the larger self
Typically, people view altruism as the opposite of selfishness. If we reimagine our notions of self and other and imagine that one's sense of self is ...
Documentary film as a tool for peace
For a long while, it seemed that there were two categories of homemade videos; cute videos of cats and babies and those that appeal to schadenfreude w...
Busking in the time of the Coronavirus
Public art, specifically street music, is an often under appreciated component of a rich urban culture. As many people are forced into a shelter-in-pl...
Protocol and the human NPC
Non-Playing Characters, or, NPC's are a feature of video games. I suggest that there exist human NPC's who follow protocol rather than think for thems...
secrets, image, and the end of interiority
Compartmentalization resulting from parsing public and private leads to a form a social bondage. Transparency becomes anathema as people ceaselessly m...
futbols from the sky and national mythology
A sport that merely requires a ball and a field may still be beyond the reach of many children too poor to afford food. Dropping footballs from drones...
Twitter, the instrument of POTUS
With no moderation, the Twitter channel allows the president of the United States to command the attention of billions without filter. Never before ha...
seven escapist systems in denial of science
With the fading of understanding in science in the past decades, many have turned to systems of belief which contradict facts and reason. Today's essa...
Animals don't ask questions
Starting with the putative notion that animals don't interrogate, but rather express or plea, I look at the spectrum between meditative interiority an...