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- #200: The Nature Around Us (12/10/2022)
- #199: Why Positionality Matters (12/6/2022)
- #197: We Have Good Reasons for Hope (11/8/2022)
- #193: De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bene: We Owe Respect to the Dead (9/10/2022)
- #182: Reflections on Identity, Purpose, and the Active Life (7/31/2022)
- #181: Are We too Stupid for the Internet? (7/30/2022)
- #171: Writing as Witnessing (6/22/2022)
- #164: The Answer to Death is Life (5/25/2022)
- #162: Seize the Day (5/2/2022)
- #153: The Monstrosity of Vladimir Putin: We Have Learned Nothing From History (3/4/2022)
- #139: Nature Demands Humility: Lessons from Jurassic Park World (2/14/2022)
- #137: Live Every Day in Love (2/8/2022)
- #135: Conspiracy Belief, Science, Ego and Humility (2/3/2022)
- #134: If People Apologize for Their Mistake, They Should Not Be Cancelled (2/3/2022)
- #133: Am I Really Not Paying Attention If I Am Not Outraged? (1/31/2022)
- #132: My Tablet Told Me to Try a Bedtime Alarm to Get More Sleep (1/27/2022)
- #131: Please Stop this Fascination with End-Times Rhetoric (1/26/2022)
- #129: Pets Teach Empathy and How to Live (1/20/2022)
- #124: Happy New Year 2022! (1/6/2022)
- #121: Outrage Is Not a Successful Communication Strategy (11/28/2021)
- µ07: Can Cats Have Restless Tail Syndrome? (11/23/2021)
- #115: Are We Anthropomorphizing Human Beings? (10/4/2021)
- #114: Be Quiet Sometimes (9/27/2021)
- #112: The Normality of Not Knowing (9/15/2021)
- #108: Carefulness Is Not Fear (8/15/2021)
- #107: How (Not) to Be Unhappy (8/14/2021)
- #106: How to Be Happy (8/13/2021)
- µ#4: We Need Animals (8/12/2021)
- µ#3: Tired (8/3/2021)
- #93: Don’t Picture This: The Trouble With Selfies (5/6/2021)
- #90: In Defense of “Wokeness” (4/22/2021)
- #89: Tragedy Is the Nature of Life, and That Is OK (4/13/2021)
- #86: Nature Is Stronger than Us: The Pandemic, not the Lockdown, Is the Problem (4/5/2021)
- #79: The Need for the Public Understanding of Humanities and Social Science Theory (2/22/2021)
- #73: The Destruction of Creativity through “Social” Media (1/31/2021)
- #68: We Do Not Need Enemies (1/3/2021)
- #67: This Perfect Virus Exploits Our Weaknesses (12/29/2020)
- #65: Sine Ira et Studio: The Strength of Dispassionate Criticism (12/14/2020)
- #63: Doubt and Faith in Religion (11/11/2020)
- #61: We All Need to Appreciate Each Other (10/28/2020)
- #58: Question Everything; But Also Yourself (10/21/2020)
- #55: It’s The Uncertainty That Makes Us Worry (10/6/2020)
- #45: Benefit of the Doubt (8/26/2020)
- #42: Be the World You Want It to Be (7/30/2020)
- #41: Corona Funk (7/29/2020)
- #38: Radical Empathy (6/24/2020)
- #26: Coronavirus is a Thief (5/25/2020)
- #15: Happiness (4/14/2020)
- #12: We Are All Just Human Beings, and We Are All Predictably Stupid (4/1/2020)
- #3: Don’t Know What to Say (12/10/2019)
- #2: A Fresh Start (12/5/2019)
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