I want to explore a word that seems to be very triggering, and thereby somehow very important, in our culture: the word God. Whether you...

We’re all somehow familiar with the concept that a person's actions can be “too perfect” – to the point of seeming creepy, or mechanical,...

“I’m a physicist, I have a working knowledge of the entire universe and everything it contains” –Sheldon, “The Big Bang Theory” While...

Can a butterfly really cause a hurricane? Having been working in complexity science, I realize that I have a problem with the...

One of the most important and amazing feats that our brain learns to do in this complex world is to find compressed representations of...

In this post, I wanted to share a bit of a sense of the more fun aspects of a scientific career: namely having cool conversations and...

Is there one true way to understand a tree? Well, of course there is — talk to any scientist! A physicist will tell you that it’s a...

Just wanted to take a break to sprinkle some magic into this blog ;P Well as it happens, I have always believed in Santa. Perhaps thanks...

What makes a good scientific model? As a theoretical physicist I used to think that modeling everything at the level of atoms seems like...