It affects everything and no one is talking about it. For a population to replace itself, the fertility rate, historically and without scientific question, has to be 2.1 (births per woman). In the US, right now that number is 1.70, and decreasing. In other words, as our population ages, we’re…

Free will is an illusion I think we know the universe is deterministic. We just fool ourselves otherwise. Our egos need to believe in their own agency. Yet, there are clues all around us we’re playing a charade. Let’s start by thinking of the number of phrases we use, everyday…

*For me, a healthy, privileged white man in an affluent society — Hi. I’m a healthy, privileged white man in an affluent society, and I’ve been an on again / off again vegetarian throughout my life. Yay, me! My current stretch isn’t even my longest — it will be just two and a half years in January. But I’m positive it’s going…

They could mean your survival — Climate change is a hyperobject. That means it’s big and complex and multi-faceted. It also means that even scientists won’t say that a particular storm or flood has been caused by climate change. …

Could it lead to anxiety and panic attacks? — I first noticed Sam Harris years ago on YouTube and watched many of his religious debates. I read his books The End of Faith and The Moral Landscape. …

People can change with age — Growing up, I never thought much about politics. Even in my twenties, it was a subject I rarely paid attention to. Then one day, at a restaurant where I was working, a bartender started calling me “Tim the liberal.” Joe was a chain-smoking older guy from the tougher places around…

We thought we had it bad — we didn’t know the half of it — When you raid a former president’s home, what does it do to his supporters? It further endears him to them, of course. Like everything else in our polarized society, nothing turns any lights on in the minds of stalwart Trump supporters, nothing changes their minds. …

A top-selling author spills all the secrets — I sat down with myself recently for an interview. We met in my modest country home in rural upstate New York. A small fluffy dog, a “Cavapoo” mix named Breezy, laid at my feet as I asked myself a series of questions. I was wearing black running shorts and a…