The first diary in a series which looks at significant species in the evolution of humans. Humans evolved from apelike ancestors. This idea was first put forth in 1859, when Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species and spelled out his idea of evolution through natural selection. At that time, most people accepted the religious … Continue reading Hominins →

Power, Philosophy, and the Perils of Idealism: Plato’s Republic Reimagined Through Political Upheaval

Back in December, you hopefully thoroughly immersed yourself in The Map of Physics, an animated video–a visual aid for the modern age–that mapped out the field of physics, explaining all the connections between classical physics, quantum physics, and relativity. You can’t do physics without math. Hence we now have The Map of Mathematics. Created by physicist Dominic Walliman, this […]

Does “might make right”?

The US president is going to give us a thousand years of woke