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One of the most fascinating manifestations of human creativity is the way we embellish our experience of events in the natural world. Who could have predicted t...

Big history combines the cosmological, geological, evolutionary, and human timelines into one grand overview. It provides both insight and awe.

I’ve been thinking about this quote from The Country of Language by Scott Russell Sanders: “And I knew that my impulse to write is bound up with my ...

On May 28, 585 BC, a total eclipse of the sun was visible from the Ionian island of Miletus. What makes this particularly noteworthy is that Thales of Miletus p...

Yesterday I heard an excellent talk on the evolution of skin color by Nina Jablonski of Penn State. She started by describing how little work there was on the s...

A few weeks back, I posted about how listening to music that makes you happy might have beneficial cardiovascular effects. As I wrote the post, I happened to be...

I recently ran across a quote that I saved from a 2003 interview with writer Roger Angell. He was discussing baseball, which he’s covered for the New York...

When I was a child, one of the things I loved best about Christmas was the music, particularly the old hymns and carols. I didn’t care very much for Rudol...

A few weeks ago, I was talking with a friend about gratitude; when I’m in a beautiful place, or looking at the starry sky, or feeling particularly appreci...

Note: This originally appeared as an About page on the Thinking Meat Project after old content was pruned. I changed it to a post so it could be moved over in c...