blog posts

What causes Trumpism?: A different account - 2023 May 21

Wikipedia versus ChatGPT: which one is the easier method for coming up with a short essay? - 2023 Feb. 5

A summary of a two interviews with teenage "Luddite" Logan Lane - 2023 Feb. 4

The (red) pen is mightier: ChatGPT's threat isn't to education - 2023 Feb. 1

Testing ChatGPT with a set of pre-written questions - 2023 Jan. 29

The ethics of physics homework in the age of unethical big tech - 2023 Jan. 25

A summary of an interview with AI ethicist Timnit Gebru and six articles by and about her - 2023 Jan. 21

Psychopathic AI: a call to arms - 2023 Jan. 16

The who, when, and where of early Christianity: how little is known, and why it matters - 2023 Jan. 14

Embrace the negative: Live better by accepting negative scientific results about health, diet, and exercise - 2023 Jan. 10

Physics didn't take away your free will, and quantum mechanics didn't give it back. - 2023 Jan. 7

Euclid meets DalĂ­: the metric in Einstein's theory of relativity - 2023 Jan. 6

Reading relativity: recommended reading (mostly free) about Einstein's universe, for people with a variety of math backgrounds - 2023 Jan. 4

Spacetime diagrams and the relative nature of time - 2023 Jan. 3

Why can't you go faster than the speed of light? -- An explanation without equations or fallacies. - 2022 Dec. 31

Do we all move through spacetime at the speed of light? - 2022 Dec. 18

the African COVID paradox - 2022 Dec. 13

myths and facts about water and thirst - 2022 Dec. 3

the junk science of quantum consciousness - 2022 Nov. 29

reviews of videos about falling into a black hole - 2022 Nov. 25

What's the climb factor of your run? - 2022 Nov. 15