The following is a summary of the epilogue in my book, The Wise Guy and the Fool. What is the meaning of life? People love this question, and they love to ask it of me when they find out that I am a ...

Meaning comes and goes. That’s its nature. Or rather, that’s our nature. Sometimes we experience life as meaningful. Sometimes we don’t. Just as sometimes we experience life as joyful and sometimes we ...

What are the physics of life? That is more than just a philosophical question—it has practical implications for our search ...

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Mean radius is the average measurement from the true center of the group (white) to the center of each shot. More simply, it's the average "miss distance." Group size, not mean radius, has been the ...

It’s one of humanity’s biggest questions, and there’s no simple answer, but let’s give it a try anyway: what is the meaning of life? We asked a philosopher and a physicist to shed some light on the ...