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Kirsten Hacker

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If you have landed here, perhaps you know me from Quora, Medium, or YouTube. I was a physicist for twenty years, but today I am the author of several unusual novels, an audio book, and one soothing, yet illuminating blog with musings about science, philosophy, and culture. paypal.me/kirstenhacker

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2025 12

  1. Defiantly Telephatic
  2. Intelligent Apes
  3. You Are Now Leaving Silicon Valley
  4. Godzilla and the Tomorrow War Greet You
  5. Welcome to Asteroid City
  6. You Are Within the Fallout Zone
  7. Of a Series of Unfortunate Events
  8. The Boys are Back in Town
  9. Like Birds Without Feathers
  10. Creating Songs of Confusion
  11. Within The Greatest Story Never Told
  12. You Don’t Want to Be the New Girl

2024 5

  1. Dancing With the Deadpool
  2. Trapped in The Good Place
  3. Oceans Apart, Day After Day
  4. While Lost in Dark Shadows
  5. Where the Pieces Almost Fit Together

2023 102

  1. Among Ghostbusters Who Seek Scapegoats
  2. They Found Dory Alone and Staring into a Void
  3. Watching the Hunger Games of the 100 Original Angels
  4. It’s a Scream
  5. Of Translations Between
  6. The Terminatrices
  7. Dieties of Chaos
  8. Reinterpreting a Dream
  9. Of Our Female Space Jesus
  10. She’s Making Discoveries
  11. Of Mice and Men
  12. Within Aggressive Skull Shapes
  13. Seeking Scientific Justification for Atrocity
  14. Amid Intellectual Imposture
  15. In the Thick of Aggravated Atonement
  16. A Little Girl Under a Tree Asks a Question
  17. Do I Love You, Blank Space?
  18. Bad JuJu
  19. Lies Within Pandora’s Box
  20. Among Wild Ideas
  21. Within the Mind of a Dark Phoenix
  22. Soaring Above the Noise Floor of Fictional Space
  23. There is Always a Countdown to Something
  24. Futurama 6
  25. Futurama 5
  26. Futurama 4
  27. Futurama 3
  28. Futurama 2
  29. Futurama 1
  30. When Disengaging from the Machine
  31. You Must Remember This
  32. My Expectations are Curbed
  33. Stranger Things Have Happened
  34. Among the Men in Black
  35. The Darkest Minds Know
  36. When A Butterfly Dances
  37. Bold Hearts Will Beckon
  38. come cLoser
  39. Zoom Out
  40. Seek Counsel
  41. Spielverderber
  42. It is O’fishially Uncanny
  43. The Memories Buried Within
  44. Oppenheimer
  45. Make Way for Barbie
  46. Decipherer of the Da Vinci Code
  47. Enemy of the Injustice League
  48. She Who Observes Witchery Within
  49. Wonderland Awakening Wakanda
  50. When There is a Political Coup by Actors
  51. Apostles of Saint X
  52. 3008
  53. Guardians of the Galaxy
  54. Musing on Immunity
  55. As Dog Days of Summer Dribble Along
  56. .. and A Dramatic Key Change Occurs
  57. Dr. Watson, I Presume
  58. Dr. Hacker and Dr. No
  59. Dr. Who?
  60. Dr. Pym and Mrs. Pym
  61. From the Office of the Secret
  62. Impossible Mission Foundation
  63. Writing the Minority Report at the Edge of Tomorrow
  64. For Those With Arrested Development
  65. Unearthing Mummies Without Babies
  66. Between Silos of Unerasable History
  67. Where Things Shouldn’t be Sugar Coated
  68. Shazam!
  69. Thus Spake Grindlewald’s Children
  70. Of Severance
  71. Dialing in Indiana Jones’ Destiny
  72. Raining Tears of the Moon
  73. On the Parade of Beautiful People
  74. Within Archive 81
  75. Kneeling Before the Boss Baby of an Iron Sky
  76. Wishing They Could Steal from the Future
  77. Without Chat GPT’s Similarity Scores
  78. Next Generation PTSD Therapies
  79. Jean Luc Picard’s Retirement Package
  80. Leading the Way to the Path of the Righteous
  81. It’s happening again…
  82. Chat GPT Pattern Recognition
  83. Comedy That Isn’t Funny
  84. In Which Ms. Knightly Plays the Fool
  85. Pirates
  86. Saving Mermaids
  87. Remember. This is Acting.
  88. Was für ein Shrek
  89. Forever Immortalized in Bronze
  90. Her Agent Gave Her a Story Template
  91. Suicide Squad 1-3
  92. Wonder Woman 1-2
  93. A Neverending Investigation
  94. Of Common Ground
  95. Westworld vs. Wonderland 1
  96. Westworld vs. Wonderland 2
  97. Westworld vs. Wonderland 3
  98. Westworld vs. Wonderland 4
  99. Posing Questions for the King of Fairy Tales
  100. Within the Glass Onion
  101. Baggage Handler Coup
  102. The Incredible

2022 131

  1. Godzilla vs. Kong
  2. Enter the Dragon
  3. Amid Cautionary Tales
  4. In Search of Grounding
  5. A Dystopian Christmas Classic
  6. In a Strange World
  7. For Wednesday’s Child of Woe
  8. Boys Will Be Boys
  9. They Say They Shattered Her
  10. Distracted Soul Within
  11. Lisa’s Big Adventure
  12. The Victim is the Product
  13. Peripheral
  14. Where is love?
  15. Pinocchio
  16. Disoriented
  17. Disappointed
  18. Disenchanted
  19. Princess Vanellope Rules
  20. Cruella
  21. Maleficent
  22. Frozen
  23. Re-creating History
  24. Within Jurassic Park 6
  25. Jurassic Park 12
  26. It Takes More Than ‘Hocus Pocus’
  27. To Tame the Tiger Kings
  28. Along With Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
  29. She-Hulk: Legal Eagle
  30. Uses of the Blood of the Lamb
  31. Within Political Matchmaking
  32. Instantiating My Affordable Apotheosis
  33. As Bill and Ted Face the Music
  34. Travelling at Lightspeed
  35. To Awaken the Ghost in the Shell
  36. Dawg
  37. This is Your Life
  38. The Matrix Revisited
  39. An Account of Sci Fi Genealogy
  40. Centered Around the Quadratic Mean
  41. An inversion of an inversion
  42. Dark Comedy
  43. Scheduled for Destruction in 2026
  44. Acts of Violet
  45. Professor Maggot
  46. Institutes for Wayward Youth
  47. Films Featuring False Selves
  48. She Belongs to the Gods
  49. Cytonic Suppression
  50. No Escape
  51. Detritus Stuck in Charlotte’s Web
  52. Figuring out Billy Summers
  53. Battle Hymn of the Beta Female
  54. Hot Air Balloon Rides
  55. Encryption of Publicly Available Documents
  56. The Gospel of Alix
  57. Long Live the King
  58. Soothsaying and Modern Witchcraft
  59. The Princess and the Ant
  60. The Economics of Culltural Conditioning
  61. Donna Evita Mater Misericordie
  62. When Somebody at Google Doesn’t Like You
  63. Film Reviews
  64. The Starless Sea
  65. What is going on?
  66. Sea of Tranquility
  67. The Right Stuff
  68. Disappearing Ink
  69. Model/Actress/Singer/Novelist
  70. A Marvel Monument to Our Times
  71. The Margins of Marvel Mayhem
  72. Smoke and Mirrors Scapegoating
  73. More Marvel Madness
  74. A Teen’s Perspective on Netflix
  75. Marvel’s Movie Machine
  76. What Are the Qualities of a Disney Princess?
  77. Allowing A Beast To Roam
  78. Distributed Atrocities
  79. Tempo, Pitch, and Voice
  80. Dolly Parton: Run Rose Run
  81. Cross-disciplinary Contamination
  82. Next Generation Relationship Engineering
  83. Kanye – Yeezy
  84. No Time to Die
  85. Wakenhyrst If Thou Darest
  86. A 42 Million Dollar Kickstarter
  87. Star Trek: Picard
  88. Ed Sheeran, Too Good to Be True
  89. Taxonomy of a Swamp
  90. Remote Control
  91. Historical Fiction
  92. Another Film Idea
  93. Medusa vs. Mnemosyne
  94. Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility
  95. The Oresteia
  96. Agitating Art
  97. Evil Aunt May
  98. Pattern Recognition
  99. Polarizing Cult Classics
  100. Do Not Shatter Me
  101. The Psycho Wife Division (PWD)
  102. Bit Flipping Error
  103. Upside Down Apocalypse Now
  104. Crime and Punishment
  105. Bob Marley
  106. How does it feel?
  107. The Other Black Girl
  108. Charlie
  109. Love Story
  110. Asleep From Day
  111. The Thing About New Music…
  112. Who owns a face?
  113. Closer
  114. Gilead
  115. Poppies
  116. Self Portraiture
  117. Psychopaths in Love
  118. Hating Beauty
  119. Embracing Stupidity
  120. The Cruelty
  121. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
  122. Moving Between Universes
  123. Persecution
  124. It is okay to fail
  125. People Who Believe They Are Psychic
  126. Snow White and the Wicked Queen
  127. Make Way for Spiderman
  128. Faith and Bravery
  129. Dreams of Gods and Monsters
  130. Love Games: Round Two
  131. Love Games: Round One

2021 123

  1. Someone Else’s Memory
  2. Special Topics in Calamity Physics
  3. Don’t Look Up
  4. Hollywood Insiders
  5. Brain Storm
  6. Song of the Forever Rains
  7. The Matrix: Copy and Paste Edition
  8. A Matrix of Plants vs. Zombies
  9. But I’m a Cheerleader, Magnolia!
  10. Animal Farm
  11. Jack Dunn and The Da Vinci Fraud
  12. Momo
  13. A Nightmare Wrapped in a Nightmare
  14. The Book of M
  15. 2047
  16. Ten Thousand Doors of January
  17. Refreshing
  18. Crypt Keepers and Mask Makers
  19. Love Letters
  20. Vicious and Vengeful
  21. Lead-Generation Books
  22. The Need for Sacrifice of the Divine Feminine
  23. The History of Toast Making
  24. When the Victimizer Sues The Victim
  25. The Matrix Reboot
  26. The Gospel of Judas
  27. Bumblebee, Ersatz Daddy
  28. Advice Book Thieves Will Give To You
  29. Shuggie Bain
  30. Scheherazade
  31. Axiom’s End
  32. Goodreads Quantified
  33. Duped Detectives?
  34. The Fury of Motherless Children
  35. Why Culture Degrades
  36. Eteros Ego – The Other Me
  37. Netflix’s Autoplagiarism System
  38. Controlling Problematic Individuals
  39. For Darkness Shows the Stars
  40. Is it your story to tell?
  41. In Love with a Nightmare
  42. 7 Million Copies Sold?
  43. The Stars We Steal
  44. Nocturna
  45. Quantifying Uniqueness
  46. Three Body Problem
  47. Every Line of You
  48. Blowing Smoke Up Your…
  49. Improvisation Masquerading as Innovation
  50. Otherworldly Intelligence
  51. Operations at the Edge of Chaos
  52. Philosopher Kings and Memberberries
  53. An Idea for a Netflix Series
  54. Why Lawyers Don’t Take Authors’ Copyright Cases
  55. Internet Jail and Professional Trolls
  56. Simon and Schuster’s Harry Potter Rip-Off
  57. New Levels of Badness
  58. How to Enslave Someone
  59. Judging a Book by its Cover
  60. Metropolis
  61. How to Expose a Scam
  62. Automated Solutions – Augly
  63. Humanizing Monsters
  64. Cultural Impacts of Machine Assisted Writing
  65. Decrypted
  66. Deleted
  67. Reset
  68. Shipped!
  69. Plotless Prurience
  70. So Confused
  71. The Shape of Water
  72. Furthermore
  73. Holbox Romance
  74. Can an Author Steal a Plot?
  75. Dolly Parton + Masterpiece Theatre
  76. Who is Chuck Tingle?
  77. Never Let Me Go
  78. The Loop
  79. Proxy Data for Goodreads
  80. A Writer’s Reality Check
  81. Practicing the Art of the Possible
  82. Not another one!
  83. Judge Ponsor
  84. Old Manuscripts
  85. Suppressing Subversion
  86. The Hive
  87. Re-texturizing a Book
  88. Nanotech Without Entropy?
  89. William Gibson?
  90. Culture Wars and Germany
  91. The Worst Man To Have Ever Lived
  92. Changing Legal Precedents in the Right to Copy
  93. Stealing Other People’s Memories
  94. Saving Helen Keller
  95. The Unconsoled
  96. Lori
  97. Kazuo Ishiguro and AI
  98. Appropriate Punishments
  99. How to Write a Book in 7 Days
  100. A Barcode for a Book
  101. Jim Knopf and St. Elmo’s Fire
  102. Schau nicht zuruck, Pussycat! Töte! Töte!
  103. The Woman in the Window
  104. Deleted From LessWrong
  105. Eyeless in Gaza
  106. The Daughters of God
  107. Trouble in Romancelandia
  108. A Look Back
  109. Reverse Engineering Nora Roberts’ Secret Recipe
  110. Stepping Stones of Trauma
  111. The Master Plan
  112. The Standard Deviation of a Story
  113. Writing for Justice
  114. Royally Screwed
  115. The Many Faces of Alice
  116. Decrypting the DaVinci Code
  117. Eleuther AI – plagiarist in the making?
  118. Gold Coatings and Silver Linings
  119. Murakami and Deliberate Meaninglessness
  120. Books I Cannot Recommend
  121. Copyrights and Creeps
  122. Dangerous Invisibility
  123. A Novel Form of Racketeering

2020 199

  1. Money Laundering and the Value of Modern Art
  2. The Uniqueness of Snowflakes and Stories
  3. Plagiarizing Piranesi
  4. The Shamelessness of Victims
  5. Technical Breakdown of Individutopia
  6. Moral Miseducation in the Library
  7. Seeking Clarity not Victory in Publishing
  8. Books That Are Not Meant for Everyone
  9. Who should be allowed to tell your story?
  10. Harry Potter and the Twilight Hunger Games Mashup
  11. A Mystery is Unraveling
  12. Investments to Avoid
  13. A Collapsing Industry
  14. Murderers Incorporated
  15. Squaring the Circle With a Jacobian
  16. Engineered Unease
  17. An Interview with a Wanderer in the Grey Area of the Law
  18. Memory Thieves and Control Variables
  19. Demystifying the Genius of J.K. Rowling
  20. A Memorial
  21. Hacking the Goodreads Review System
  22. Another Black Cloud Approaches..
  23. Idiots vs. Morons: A Political Framework
  24. Organic and Inorganic Story Formation
  25. Entangled Meanings and Mental Decline
  26. Another Freshly Born Book
  27. Adaptive Measurement Devices
  28. The Industry of Thieves
  29. A Freshly Born Book
  30. Reprobates
  31. A Neverending Story
  32. A Scoring System for Authors
  33. He did that for me?!
  34. The Red Labyrinth
  35. Engineering Illiteracy
  36. Inventing a Genre
  37. Plagiarism Detection Algorithms
  38. Apostasizement
  39. A Case Study for Owen Meany
  40. Mauna Kea Telescope and Fear of the Dark
  41. The Lies We Tell
  42. Say it to your grave, but not to me.
  43. Selling a Thread Pulled From Someone Else’s Tapestry
  44. Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup
  45. When I stare into the void, will it stare into me?
  46. Beauty Tips for American Women
  47. Capturing the Fingerprint of a Zeitgeist
  48. Flat Earth Cosmology as a Teaching Aid
  49. An Immature Obsession with Greatness
  50. Influential Yet Invisible Whistleblowers
  51. True Time Travelers
  52. This is not a Moment. It is a Situation.
  53. Quantifying Shades of Grey
  54. The Vampire Octopus Content Generator
  55. Underwater Love
  56. Mrs. Jellyby and Mr. Skimpole
  57. Internet Dragnet Operations
  58. The Midnight Library
  59. Medusa Meets the Milikan Oil Drop Experiment
  60. The Solar System from Within and Without
  61. Kombucha and Jellyfish
  62. Cigarettes and Coronavirus
  63. Medical Diagnostic Imaging, Leukemia, and Black Holes
  64. Less Wrong: A Space For Rationality?
  65. Quantized Gravitational Conflation
  66. Artemesia and Coronavirus
  67. False Puzzles, False Promises
  68. Pygmalion or Self-Actualization
  69. Run, Rabbit, Run!
  70. Astrology and Economics
  71. The Master and Margarita
  72. My Favourite Toys
  73. How to Unethically Market Your Books
  74. Steal as Much as You Can
  75. Theogony of Napoleon Dynamite
  76. Simpson’s Paradox Applied to Physics and Love
  77. Beware the Ides
  78. How Beliefs Change What We See in Starlight
  79. #Youaregonnaloseyourjob
  80. Translators Wanted: Heroes and Artists Need Not Apply
  81. Buried in the Sands of Time
  82. You’ve Gotta Keep ’em Separated
  83. Ethics in the Conflicts of Modularity
  84. A Portrait of Dorian Grey
  85. Lithium Dreams: Filtering out What You Want to See
  86. The Costs of Isolation
  87. Dirac, Penrose, and Wolfram
  88. Of Proteins, People, and Particles
  89. After Life
  90. Ghostly Gravitational Waves
  91. The Moral Center of our Brains
  92. How We Enslave Ourselves
  93. Creating History
  94. Alone in the New Pollution
  95. Evolution of Group Delusion
  96. I’ve Been Blacklisted
  97. Why I Dislike Pop-Science and Sci-Comm
  98. State Secrets and Secret States of Quantum Computing
  99. Anderson Localization and Complexity
  100. Recursion, Renormalization, Representation, and Reality
  101. Sunspots and Eclipses
  102. Love in the Time of Corona
  103. Language Degeneracy
  104. Fictional Inquisition
  105. Five rules for writing a good book
  106. Internet Monarchists?
  107. Five Songs to Play During the Pandemic.. and Five to Avoid
  108. Dangerous Skin Care Products and Slime
  109. How to Destroy Talent
  110. New Work, Flow Summit, Twitch, Quora
  111. Five Coronavirus Themed Craft Projects
  112. Revisiting Coronavirus Data Analysis
  113. Artificial and Real Intelligence
  114. Pandemania: Day Seven
  115. Pandemania: Day Six
  116. Pandemania: Day Five
  117. Pandemania: Day Four
  118. Pandemania: Day Three
  119. Pandemania: Day Two
  120. Pandemania: Day One
  121. IdaLabs Seminar March 12
  122. Galileo’s Undone Gravity Experiment: Part 1
  123. Closing the loop
  124. Academic Treason
  125. Linux vs. Windows
  126. Coronavirus
  127. A Nobel Scam
  128. Herstory of Science
  129. Silenced by Specialization
  130. Protection from Noise
  131. Marketing: Part 6
  132. Sleeping Soundly
  133. Movie Science
  134. Down with OPP
  135. A World without Nuance
  136. Neutrino Nonsense
  137. Sunsets and Rainbows
  138. The Second Sex of Physics
  139. Ozone Bozos
  140. Ice Cold Beauty
  141. Dreams of Quantum Computing
  142. High Temperature Superconductivity
  143. Reclaiming Words
  144. Real vs. Fake Feminists
  145. Jocularity, Jocks, Jokes, and Jackson’s E&M
  146. Human Experiments
  147. Why Galaxies and Solar Systems are Flat
  148. Keeping Warm with Star Light
  149. The Schumann Resonances
  150. Forever Young
  151. The Matthew Principle
  152. Wigner Rotation
  153. Imagining an Atom
  154. Maxwell’s Equations in Wonderland
  155. Identifying an Online Shill
  156. The Shocking Treatment of Three Naomis
  157. Marketing: Part 5
  158. Geothermal Energy and the Weather
  159. There and back again… a physicist’s tale
  160. Chain Fountains
  161. Black Hole Sun
  162. Homelessness
  163. How bad is it? Really.
  164. Why Women Leave
  165. Ye of little faith..
  166. Inner Circle of Hell
  167. Marketing: Part 4
  168. Imaginary Boyfriends: 3
  169. Lost Narratives
  170. An Exclusion Principle
  171. Weary Light
  172. A Grand, Unified Theory of Flight?
  173. Survival of the Fittest Social Network
  174. Blind Spots
  175. Chronology
  176. Bayesian Blues
  177. The Walrus and the Carpenter
  178. Disentanglement
  179. Peak Oil, Peak Phosphate…
  180. Acceleration Towards a Bottleneck
  181. Blue Skies
  182. Thought Experiments
  183. Magnetic Monopoles
  184. Alix in Wonderland
  185. Femme Fatale
  186. Rococo McMansion
  187. Not of this World
  188. Songs of Inspiration
  189. Imaginary Boyfriends: 2
  190. Diamonds are Forever
  191. Busy Work
  192. Mr. Neutron
  193. Archetypes
  194. Breathing Soap Bubbles
  195. New Dark Age
  196. Signs of the Times
  197. Marketing: Part 3
  198. I’ve got the map!
  199. They are Classics for a Reason

2019 242

  1. Viva la Revolution!
  2. Ancient Egyptian Paint
  3. True Genius
  4. Marketing: Part 2
  5. Newton’s Bad Apples
  6. Time is Money
  7. Bubble Dragons
  8. Network Physics
  9. Monsters in our Midst
  10. Magic Spells
  11. Mind over Matter
  12. Bad Medicine
  13. Truth and Beauty
  14. Studying Grains of Sand
  15. Cult Followers
  16. The Original Author
  17. Aphantasia
  18. Show and Tell
  19. Confronting Aggression
  20. The History of Music
  21. Too Many People Wearing Too Many Hats
  22. Clowns of the Botpocalypse
  23. Absorbing Darkness
  24. How do people publish multiple novels in a single year?
  25. What Qualifies as Plagiarism?
  26. Reading Between the Lines in M.R. James’ Ghost Stories
  27. The Fake Economies of the Internet
  28. Reviews
  29. The Hand of Fate
  30. I once dreamed I was a butterfly..
  31. Marketing: Part 1
  32. Reference Frames
  33. Imaginary Boyfriends: 1
  34. Fear and Pain
  35. Passion
  36. Helplessness
  37. Shattering Illusions
  38. Feeling Good
  39. A Nobel Scam
  40. Herstory of Science
  41. Silenced by Specialization
  42. Protection from Noise
  43. Marketing: Part 6
  44. Sleeping Soundly
  45. Movie Science
  46. Down with OPP
  47. A World without Nuance
  48. Neutrino Nonsense
  49. Sunsets and Rainbows
  50. The Second Sex of Physics
  51. Ozone Bozos
  52. Ice Cold Beauty
  53. Dreams of Quantum Computing
  54. High Temperature Superconductivity
  55. Reclaiming Words
  56. Real vs. Fake Feminists
  57. Human Experiments
  58. Why Galaxies and Solar Systems are Flat
  59. Keeping Warm with Star Light
  60. Jocularity, Jocks, Jokes, and Jackson’s E&M
  61. The Schumann Resonances
  62. The Matthew Principle
  63. Forever Young
  64. Identifying an Online Shill
  65. Wigner Rotation
  66. The Shocking Treatment of Three Naomis
  67. Imagining an Atom
  68. Maxwell’s Equations in Wonderland
  69. Marketing: Part 5
  70. Geothermal Energy and the Weather
  71. There and back again… a physicist’s tale
  72. Chain Fountains
  73. Black Hole Sun
  74. Homelessness
  75. How bad is it? Really.
  76. Why Women Leave
  77. Ye of little faith..
  78. Inner Circle of Hell
  79. Marketing: Part 4
  80. Lost Narratives
  81. Imaginary Boyfriends: 3
  82. An Exclusion Principle
  83. Weary Light
  84. The mystery of flight?
  85. Survival of the Fittest Social Network
  86. Blind Spots
  87. Chronology
  88. Bayesian Blues
  89. The Walrus and the Carpenter
  90. Disentanglement
  91. The Center of the Universe
  92. Peak Oil, Peak Phosphate…
  93. Acceleration Towards a Bottleneck
  94. Blue Skies
  95. Thought Experiments
  96. Magnetic Monopoles
  97. Navigation
  98. Alix in Wonderland
  99. Mystery in Silicon Valley
  100. Femme Fatale
  101. Rococo McMansion
  102. True Love
  103. Not of this World
  104. Songs of Inspiration
  105. Imaginary Boyfriends: 2
  106. Diamonds are Forever
  107. Busy Work
  108. Mr. Neutron
  109. Archetypes
  110. Breathing Soap Bubbles
  111. New Dark Age
  112. Signs of the Times
  113. Marketing: Part 3
  114. I’ve got the map!
  115. They are Classics for a Reason
  116. Viva la Revolution!
  117. Ancient Egyptian Paint
  118. True Genius
  119. Marketing: Part 2
  120. Newton’s Bad Apples
  121. Time is Money
  122. Bubble Dragons
  123. Network Physics
  124. Monsters in our Midst
  125. Magic Spells
  126. Mind over Matter
  127. Bad Medicine
  128. Truth and Beauty
  129. Studying Grains of Sand
  130. Cult Followers
  131. The Original Author
  132. Aphantasia
  133. Show and Tell
  134. Confronting Aggression
  135. The History of Music
  136. Too Many People Wearing Too Many Hats
  137. Clowns of the Botpocalypse
  138. Absorbing Darkness
  139. How do people publish multiple novels in a single year?
  140. What Qualifies as Plagiarism?
  141. Reading Between the Lines in M.R. James’ Ghost Stories
  142. The Fake Economies of the Internet
  143. Reviews
  144. The Hand of Fate
  145. I once dreamed I was a butterfly..
  146. Marketing: Part 1
  147. Reference Frames
  148. Imaginary Boyfriends: 1
  149. Fear and Pain
  150. Passion
  151. Helplessness
  152. Shattering Illusions
  153. Feeling Good
  154. Medusa Meets the Milikan Oil Drop Experiment
  155. Underwater Love – a video blog tour
  156. Mrs. Jellyby and Mr. Skimpole
  157. Internet Dragnet Operations
  158. The Midnight Library
  159. The Solar System from Within and Without
  160. Kombucha and Jellyfish
  161. Cigarettes and Coronavirus
  162. Medical Diagnostic Imaging, Leukemia, and Black Holes
  163. Quantized Gravitational Conflation
  164. Less Wrong: A Space For Rationality?
  165. Artemesia and Coronavirus
  166. False Puzzles, False Promises
  167. Pygmalion or Self-Actualization
  168. Run, Rabbit, Run!
  169. The Master and Margarita
  170. Astrology and Economics
  171. My Favourite Toys
  172. How to Unethically Market Your Books
  173. Steal as Much as You Can
  174. Theogony of Napoleon Dynamite
  175. Simpson’s Paradox Applied to Physics and Love
  176. Beware the Ides
  177. How Beliefs Change What We See in Starlight
  178. #Youaregonnaloseyourjob
  179. Translators Wanted: Heroes and Artists Need Not Apply
  180. Buried in the Sands of Time
  181. You’ve Gotta Keep ’em Separated
  182. Ethics in the Conflicts of Modularity
  183. A Portrait of Dorian Grey
  184. Lithium Dreams: Filtering out What You Want to See
  185. The Costs of Isolation
  186. Dirac, Penrose, and Wolfram
  187. Of Proteins, People, and Particles
  188. After Life
  189. Ghostly Gravitational Waves
  190. The Moral Center of our Brains
  191. How We Enslave Ourselves
  192. Creating History
  193. Evolution of Group Delusion
  194. Alone in the New Pollution
  195. I’ve Been Blacklisted
  196. Beauty Tips for American Women
  197. Capturing the Fingerprint of a Zeitgeist
  198. Flat Earth Cosmology as a Teaching Aid
  199. An Immature Obsession with Greatness
  200. Influential Yet Invisible Whistleblowers
  201. This is not a Moment. It is a Situation.
  202. True Time Travelers
  203. Quantifying Shades of Grey
  204. The Vampire Octopus Content Generator
  205. State Secrets and Secret States of Quantum Computing
  206. Anderson Localization and Complexity
  207. Love in the Time of Corona
  208. Recursion, Renormalization, Representation, and Reality
  209. Language Degeneracy
  210. Sunspots and Eclipses
  211. Apostasizement
  212. Fictional Inquisition
  213. A Case Study for Owen Meany
  214. Mauna Kea Telescope and Fear of the Dark
  215. The Lies We Tell
  216. Say it to your grave, but not to me.
  217. Selling a Thread Pulled From Someone Else’s Tapestry
  218. When I stare into the void, will it stare into me?
  219. Internet Monarchists?
  220. Memory Thieves and Control Variables
  221. Hacking the Goodreads Review System
  222. Another Black Cloud Approaches..
  223. Organic and Inorganic Story Formation
  224. Entangled Meanings and Mental Decline
  225. Adaptive Measurement Devices
  226. The Industry of Thieves
  227. Reprobates
  228. He did that for me?!
  229. A Scoring System for Authors
  230. A Neverending Story
  231. The Red Labyrinth
  232. Engineering Illiteracy
  233. Plagiarism Detection Algorithms
  234. Dangerous Skin Care Products and Slime
  235. How to Destroy Talent
  236. New Work, Flow Summit, Twitch, Quora
  237. Why I Dislike Pop-Science and Sci-Comm
  238. Artificial and Real Intelligence
  239. Closing the loop
  240. Academic Treason
  241. Linux vs. Windows
  242. Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup