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Ode to Hoboken: I
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What’s Poetry’s Point? A Riff on “Paterson”
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Holy Shit Science and My Hypocrisy
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The End of Holy Shit Science
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Living Ironically
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To Abolish Nukes, We Must Abolish War
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Umm… Now What?
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Solzhenitsyn, the Gulag and Free Will
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NY Times and New Yorker Exaggerate Cancer Screening Benefits
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An Independence Day Look at Jefferson’s “Brutal” Hypocrisy
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Rhythms and Endings
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Surfing Woolf’s “The Waves”
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Hofstadter on Strange Loops, Beauty, Free Will, AI, God, Utopia and Gaza
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Requiem for a Psychedelic Holy Lady
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No Kings!
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My Odd Link to Apple Coder Bill Atkinson (RIP)
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Woolf Versus Buddha
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Was I Fated to Be in the SAT Premium Prep Guide?
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How I Explain Quantum Weirdness to a Friend
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I Read Gravity’s Rainbow So You Don’t Have To
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Famous Brain Scientist Loses His Mind
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What My Students Worry About
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A Wild Mystic
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Mystical Schtick
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What Good Is “Self-Knowledge”?
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Henry James, The Ambassadors and the Dithering Hero
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Being a Science Critic When Science Is Imperiled
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Mysticism Under Trump
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Scientific American and the Anti-Woke Bros
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How Friends Cope