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Apply heat to water and…well, it gets hotter. Heat it up some more and it gets hotter still – but is still water. But go on heating it up and there comes a point at which it changes into gas and water vapour. Perhaps something similar is...

Earlier this fall, I ran across a short review by Ken Kalfus in The New Yorker, praising a best-selling Russian novel called Laurus that had just been translated into English. Kalfus wrote: A new novel by the Russian medievalist Eugene Vodolazkin, ...

The below article is soon to be published in the 2015 issue of the Pacific Journal, making it my second peer-reviewed journal article, posted in full with permission. It’s a piece of speculative futurology, like my “Billion Immigrants” post last summer...

wrong year ← Older revision Revision as of 19:53, August 15, 2016 Line 1: Line 1: The '''modern age''' was a period of [[Earth history]] characterized by modern conveniences. Among these "improvements" were [[antibiotic]]s, [[car]]s, [[telephone...

This book review of John Reilly's is the source of one of my favorite quotes: How do we know that the 500 or so years of the Modern Age are at last drawing to a close? Lukacs's answer to this, and it's a good one, is to draw attention to the remarkable...