2025

an archive of posts from this year

Dec 30, 2025 New Orleans — Where Jazz Lives in the Streets
Dec 01, 2025 Nietzsche: God Is Dead, and We Have Killed Him
Nov 15, 2025 Goethe II: Faust, Part Two
Nov 11, 2025 Goethe I: Faust, Part One
Oct 11, 2025 The Hard Problem of Consciousness: Why the Brain Is Not Enough
Sep 26, 2025 The Game of Go: The Most Human Game Ever Invented
Sep 09, 2025 Martin Eden: The Book That Knows Too Much About You
Sep 05, 2025 Vacuum Energy: Why Nothing Weighs Something
Aug 27, 2025 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: When the Universe Chose a Direction
Aug 09, 2025 Dostoevsky: The Writer Who Knew Too Much
Aug 08, 2025 General Relativity: Gravity Is Not a Force
Jul 31, 2025 Erotapokriseis VII
Jul 13, 2025 The Crisis in Fundamental Physics: An Honest Assessment
Jul 09, 2025 Gogol's Overcoat: On Invisibility, Desire, and the Weight of a Name
Jun 30, 2025 Erotapokriseis VI
Jun 11, 2025 Look Up — A Letter to Anyone Who Has Forgotten the Sky
Jun 01, 2025 Special Relativity: The End of Absolute Space and Time
May 28, 2025 Erotapokriseis V
May 23, 2025 Geometry: Let No One Ignorant of Geometry Enter
May 21, 2025 Filizko got her masters degree, yay!
May 17, 2025 Wittgenstein: The Philosopher Who Tried to Kill Philosophy
May 09, 2025 Post-Truth: On the Collapse of the Epistemic Commons
Apr 28, 2025 Beautiful But Wrong: The Most Elegant Theories That Nature Rejected
Apr 18, 2025 The Measurement Problem: Why Quantum Mechanics Has No Agreed Interpretation After 100 Years
Apr 16, 2025 Erotapokriseis IV
Apr 11, 2025 Epictetus: The Slave Who Was Free
Apr 01, 2025 Topological Phases of Matter: When Topology Becomes Physics
Mar 29, 2025 Marcus Aurelius: The Emperor Who Wrote to Himself
Mar 21, 2025 The Art of Folding: Paper, History, and the Mathematics of Modular Origami
Mar 17, 2025 The Country That Ate Its Own Geniuses: America and the Intellectuals It Could Not Love
Mar 10, 2025 Erotapokriseis III
Mar 07, 2025 Nikko — I adopted a Shiba Inu :)
Mar 02, 2025 Quantum Chromodynamics — The Violent Heart of Matter
Feb 26, 2025 Kant: The Man Who Never Left Königsberg and Changed Everything
Feb 16, 2025 Why American Intellectuals Are Invisible: A Philosophical Diagnosis
Jan 19, 2025 My Biggest Red Flag: On Being Intolerant of Superficiality, a Confession and a Defense
Jan 06, 2025 Filizko Went to Beijing for Go Things