Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth ~ Jules Verne   Bad choices make good stories. I’ve got great stories. I’ve…

My May 2018 column for the Weekly Hubris has been posted. It’s here.

On 26 April 2018 I participated in a discussion as part of the East Bay Sierra Club’s dinner series. With thanks to the series chair Jamen Shively, the resulting poor video is embedded below.   My latest book is available…

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…