Let's plan what we'll be doing for the next quarter! Is there a topic you'd like to give a talk about? Come have a voice in what we do next […]

This week is our popular Speed Talks event! Three to five speakers get 5-8 minutes each to expound their ideas, followed by our group discussion period where the community react […]

Fjorlief will be reading the short story "Packing" by the award-winning author T. Kingfisher. The story, both a requiem and a  promissory, is food for thought about moving forward into […]

The next installment of The Story of Us by the blogger and illustrator Tim Urban of Wait But Why! A single cell is itself a giant—a magical living giant made […]

Fanfiction is fan-written fiction about existing characters and worlds created by other writers, usually from popular media such as TV, movies, or bestselling books. When did people start writing fanfiction? […]

There are doctors whose daily job, their 9-5, is making the blind to see. There are people whose everyday job at the factory is constructing tiny devices that are implanted […]

The next installment of The Story of Us by the blogger and illustrator Tim Urban of Wait But Why! Building giants was a necessity for ancient humans. A human tribe […]

The next installment of The Story of Us by the blogger and illustrator Tim Urban of Wait But Why!   Building giants was a necessity for ancient humans. A human tribe was more than the sum of its parts, in physical power, in productivity, and in knowledge.   Given the powers of emergence, large human […]

The more we work with LLMs (Large Language Models, like ChatGPT and Gemini and Claude), and the more we struggle with the stupid mistakes that they make, the more we see how very *human* their errors are. They struggle to please. They over-estimate their own ability. They fail to cite their sources. They misremember things. […]

To be overwhelmed by the greatness of something isn't necessarily pleasant. When we talk about Awe as atheists do we really mean the overwhelmed part? Are we focused on powerfully wonderful experiences that we might describe as AWEsome, or on powerfully negative experiences we might describe as AW(E)ful? How about a nice mild sense of […]