BiteofanApple

From Chicago with Love

Lanterns in the Void: Science and Discovery

That First and Last Question

The Medieval Origin of the Ph.D. Dissertation

Gatekeepers are Dead, Long Live the Gatekeepers

With Flying Pen, When Mortals Sleep

What is Potential Energy, Really?

Friendship is an Exponential Function

Because it Speaks in Words

Would You Believe that This is It?

The True Expense of Nature

A Field Guide to Learning

Why You Can't Write That Book

Mailing things is Fun

Take Better Notes, By Hand

You have access to almost any book

Load-Bearing Walls

An Age of Promethean Ambitions

Words are a Leaky Abstraction

On the Lies Depression Tells

The Long View of History

Blogging, Writing, Musing, and Thinking

Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On

Empirical Partial Derivatives

Chemical Telescopes and the Process of Science

So Long Pine.blog

Spoken Audio from Automator & NetNewsWire

The Strangely Anthropic Form of Natural Laws

Your Brain is an L1 Cache

Trapped in the Infinite Honey Pot

The Methods of Science & Medieval Rainbows

The Practicals of Writing: Paper and Pens

Starting a Newsletter

Developing Style: Writing Cursive Two Years In

Narrative Structure and the Principle of Least Action