I find it so interesting that quite a common response when folks hear it said that How Life Works aims for a shift in how we talk about biology is: Oh, so it's one of those attempts to unseat Neodarwinism eh? In fact, what I say about evolution is largely confined to...

This is good. But the problem is not just about training, but also time and other pressures: I have heard early-career researchers say the pressure to produce and publish leaves no time for thinking. It requires wider institutional change.

Today’s issue! Part 2 of Philip Ball and Dr Iain McGilchrist in conversation over Ball’s latest book: How Life Works UChicagoPress + an interview hosted by Bohemian Rhapsodies w/ a leading scholar of science and religion, Peter Harrison ⁦Peter Harrison⁩ marginaliareviewofbooks.com/so/2aO_hq2TB?l…

🕉️ "...spore and sphota, nidus and neuron, stem-cell syllable, perfected ovum: Aum." This is a freely structured essay about the Sacred Syllable--many thanks to Bohemian Rhapsodies and Alexandre Barylski at Marginalia Review of Books for giving it a home marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/aumcoming…

Celebrate the human! This issue: Summer 2024 journal, w/ contributors like ⁦Philip Ball⁩ ⁦Amit Majmudar⁩ & ⁦Peter Harrison⁩ + Adam Kirsch’s “The Revolt Against Humanity” Columbia Global Reports⁩ reviewed by ⁦our EIC ⁦⁦⁦Bohemian Rhapsodies⁩ marginaliareviewofbooks.com/so/fbP0pG1mV?l…

➡️ Summer 2024 📚 Collected MRB publications on Nietzsche, the new biology, the Singularity, the sound of aum and more with contributors like ⁦Amit Majmudar⁩ ⁦Philip Ball⁩ ⁦Dr Iain McGilchrist⁩ @samuelloncar Peter Harrison ⁦Nick Spencer⁩ marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/celebrati…

“Transhumanism is a dumbed down and hyped-up version of ascetic and gnostic philosophies from antiquity…the language of Silicon Valley transhumanism is a form of the most anti-flesh, apocalyptic philosophies from the past.” -⁦ ⁦Bohemian Rhapsodies⁩ marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/apocalyps…

What I’ve been doing this Spring…

My weekend: Apocalyptic Philosophy in Hegel, Heidegger, and Hösle One: What is Apocalyptic Philosophy and why is it is a necessary and necessarily urgent field of Philosophy?  Two: How has Hegel’s apocalyptic philosophy of absolute unveiling defined the horizon of modernity?

July Mission To Psyche report: The Psyche spacecraft is stable and healthy in Nominal mode, currently 2.22 au from the Sun and 2.69 au from Earth. Isn't it amazing what humans can do? (Here's a part of our team that was at launch in Florida last year.) #PI_Daily

Had a fun argument last night about the machine metaphor in biology. My position is that, while it's fine to use a machine metaphor to describe some parts, like a heart or a flagellar motor, it doesn't work well for a living organism as a whole. The counterargument was...

A Mission To Psyche update and invitation to take our team's brand-new, free online course: Countless Worlds in our Solar System: Asteroids, Comets and Meteorites. news.asu.edu/20240718-scien…

Such a joy to see ⁦Mission To Psyche⁩ on the big outdoor Missions in Flight board at ⁦NASA JPL⁩!

I recently twigged that all this Silicon Valley fantasising about immortality, transhumanism, AI apocalypses, the urgent need to populate Mars, and now demographic implosion, is at least partly a grandiose projection of a terror of mortality. the-tls.co.uk/science-techno…

The first free library in England, one frequented by Marx and Engels - it even has 15th century cat flaps!

It’s here, folks! Discover the epic with me as your guide… amzn.in/d/a6pZpdG

This because Christianity is the only religion that forgot its “own” (I.e. Jewish, the doctrine of Gilgul, or the Wheel, which is the concealed doctrine hidden under Maaseh Merkebah) doctrine of reincarnation. My Columbia UP book next year will be the first thing on this. Ever.

Synthetic biology startups faltering. An interesting development, though too early to say where it might end. Was there perhaps a hype-inflated bubble? science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

Environmental testing is always an intense time! Congratulations Lunar Trailblazer !

Congratulations to our Contributing Editor, Amit Majmudar! What a beautiful endorsement from the former Editor of POETRY magazine Christian Wiman: