New Criticals

Embracing the heat death.

What is the ethical value of the fact that we came from the stars?

What I think is significant about Jeremy England's most recent work on the statistical mechanics of self-replication.

Some thoughts about time and selfhood based on the thermodynamic understanding of living organization.

In which I tell a story about how we got into this awful mess.

How do the molecules inside cells manage to turn chemistry into language?

How energy flows enable and constrain living organization.

Why are there always more possibilities?

What is entropy and why am I making it all the time?

What is energy and what does it mean that it is conserved?

Explaining the drive behind the semantics.

In which I claim that life is natural.