Curiosity Blogs

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• Why Are Men Fascinated With Big Breasts — Curious why men are so fascinated with big breasts? I trace the history from ancient art and Renaissance corsets to mode
• Some Kinds of Love — Surprising findings from my informal surveys of outlier desire. Read about objectum sexuality and object personification
• Desire Paths: The Unconventional Way to Live Your life — Ever noticed the little dirt trails cutting across a lawn? In this re-share of a favorite from I Dream of FIRE I use des
• Look at all this money! — Looking for a quick money mood boost? In this playful photo post I lay out real collectible U.S. banknotes for you to st
• How We See Ourselves in Our Sexual Fantasies, and What It Means — How people see themselves in sexual fantasies matters. In my study of 4,175 Americans for my book Tell Me What You Want,
• What Is Sentient Object Romance? — Curious about sentient object romance? I spoke with Chuck Tingle and read I'm Gay For My Living Billionaire Jet Plane to
• What Exactly Is A Design Classic? — A tweet comparing a secure cycle parking shelter to a pig shelter kicked off a debate on what makes a design classic. I
• Why Would Aliens Care About Us? — What if aliens came for our DNA, not our water? Here I question the Fermi Paradox and the sample size N=1 problem, and a
• Could the Space Voyages in the Film and Novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" Really Happen? — Could 2001: A Space Odyssey really happen? I revisit my childhood obsession and unpack NASA Glenn papers by Stanley Boro
• Picturesque imaginings — A window can blur time. In this post I wander through William Henry Fox Talbot's 1843 stay in Rouen and why he photograp
• Fortunes — Love seeing a new quote when you open a terminal? I've packaged a set of fortune cookies for the unix fortune program th
• Mammals suck — A viral Facebook post about milk sent me down a rabbit hole. I unpack Katie Hinde milk research and milk composition res
• Forecast — What if paintings looked like weather maps and constellations. I built Forecast, a long-form generative art project laun
• A strange kind of physical reality — Particles as pixels collapsing into form. A long form generative art project lands on fxhash with FAB DAO, allow list dr
• Coding my Handwriting — Too fiddly to code? Two months later I built a cursive handwriting generator in p5js from my own script. I walk through
• Rhea From about 50,000 km — Curious what Rhea looked like during Cassini’s close flyby? In this post I unpack the 30th’s images, why the closest fra
• Cassini Team Shows Some Color — A rare color view stopped me in my tracks. I walked through NASA's surprise release of Cassini color images and the Cass
• Sharpest Image of The Sun as of 2002 — Sharpest image of the Sun in 2002, captured at La Palma by the Swedish Solar Telescope. I pulled this straight from APOD
• Rosetta’s Goodbye Landing — Under 10 km above comet 67P the dust field looked alive. I processed the first Rosetta goodbye landing image to reduce n
• Enter Prometheus — A close-up view of Saturn's moon Prometheus, taken with Cassini's narrow-angle camera on December 6, 2015, grabbed my at
• We are Star Sand — Picture this, the Sun as a grain of sand. I walk you from 1,000 to 1,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 stars with sand mats, cube
• The Moon teaches you to see Earth's Orbit — Want to see Earth's orbit in the sky using the Moon? Here I show how the half moon, especially first quarter at sunset a
• Arms around the ecliptic
• Physical Astronomy - Definition of a New Way of Teaching — Surprising fact: the Sun does not move, we do. My Physical Astronomy method teaches astronomy to kids through movement a
• Blue Moon, Dark Moon, Nose Moon, Tail Moon — Ever wondered what a Blue Moon really means, or what is a Blue Moon in simple terms? I walk through the Blue Moon defini
• Feel the Earth spin — Curious why you can't feel the Earth spin? I explain how Earth's size and our inner ear hide its about 1,000 mph rotatio
• Get closer to the Moon without leaving the Earth — Ever wondered how close you can get to the Moon without leaving the Earth? I map the exact recipe. Stand on Mt. Chimbora
• DANCERS OF THE DEEP: JELLYFISH — A graceful ocean dancer in watercolor, long tentacles and ruffled oral arms. Through personal anecdotes I trace jellyfis
• HERMIT CRAB: REAL ESTATE TYCOONS OF THE FORESHORE — Want to meet the foreshore's tiniest real estate tycoons? In this post I watch Grainyhand hermit crabs on Vancouver Isla
• CLALLAM BAY FOSSIL HEIST — Sunshine, tides and a comic fossil heist made for a memorable Clallam Bay fossil hunt with my mom. We explored the Clall
• FOSSIL FISHAPODS FROM THE CANADIAN ARCTIC — What if a fishapod went back to the water? Here I tell the story of Qikiqtania wakei, a Tiktaalik relative and new entry
• The Abandoned Lands — Geology explorations, field notes, photos and stories from a 2012 summer roaming the margins of the Colorado Plateau, co
• The Other California: What to See When You've Run Out of Postcard Destinations — Tired of Yosemite postcards? I've been cataloging California's hidden geologic gems, from Carrizo Plains and the best Sa
• Vallicella on Immortal Souls — Can an Aristotelian hylomorphic soul survive the body? Responding to my old buddy Bill Vallicella, I defend Immortal Sou
• Xenophanes and natural theology — Who first argued for God by reason, not myth? In this post I make the case for Xenophanes as the founder of Pre-Socratic
• Why Describing Utopia Goes Badly — Why does describing utopia get mocked and vanish from debate? I recount my hunt for utopian studies, Mechanical Turk and
• What does Bing Chat tell us about AI risk? — Is Bing Chat a warning sign about AI risk? I walk through Microsofts new Bing beta, the threats, the professed love, and
• What Is the Aesthetic Value of Science? — Science can be beautiful. In this post I unpack the aesthetic value of science, showing how experiments, surprising resu
• The beauty (?) of mathematical proofs -- Functional and non-functional beauty — What makes a proof beautiful? Here I turn to the beauty of mathematical proofs, distinguishing functional and non-functi
• Why I don't care what possible worlds are — Lecture on Lewis and Stalnaker became a classroom experiment on whether the possible worlds debate actually matters. I t
• What is Probabilism? — Curious about what is Probabilism and what the probability axioms for credences really demand? In this post I question t
• Can We Introspectively Test the Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness? — What if conscious experience isn't simply on or off? I revisit Global Workspace Theory and whether we can introspectivel
• Artificial Intelligence as Strange Intelligence: Against Linear Models of Intelligence — What if intelligence is not a ladder? In a new draft paper with Eric Schwitzgebel I argue against linear models of intel
• Chinatown Arch — Surprised to find Havana, Cuba's Chinatown gate, the weathered Chinese arch framed by the Capitol. I photograph this run
• All The Things — Same person, new year, no resolutions, only resolve. I reflect on product fatigue from "best of everything" affiliate li
• “What is fair… and who decides?” — What counts as fair in sport? I recommend Rose Eveleth's Tested podcast, a six-part series on gender verification in spo
• Forensic storytelling — A single autopsy report stopped me in my tracks. I read a medical examiner's report and watched a life flatten into clin
• David Baron: The Martians used to be the good guys — Curious what Americans asked Martians in 1909? I chatted with David Baron, former NPR science editor, about The Martians
• This website is for humans — Seen a ramen ad promising AI can recreate recipes? That ad pushed me to explain why this website is for humans, not robo
• The Joy of Rediscovering Joy — What if an AI described joy, and another AI painted the scene. A ChatGPT description to Stable Diffusion image rekindled