The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it ~ William James   I’m writing this essay from Brooklyn, New York in early April 2018. I’m here of my own free will, to the…

I was interviewed 22 April 2018 by Brian Weinstein and Paul Maginley of The Reality Report. The result is embedded below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVsU0RE_N0E

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind ~ Bertrand Russell   I’m often asked, as if my personal life is anybody’s…

But being dependent, every day of the year and for year after year, upon certain politicians for news, the newspaper reporters are obliged to work in harmony with their news sources ~ Edward L. Bernays   I am occasionally asked…

It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power. We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible. ~…

I was interviewed live on KKFI radio in Kansas City, Missouri on Monday night, 16 April 2018. The archived result is described and embedded here. I’m on the air for a few minutes immediately after the opening headline news updates.…