Eating the Engram

A brief history of memory — in cells, worms, and beyond the brain.

Aug 3 • 

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June 2025

Enter the Meadow

Modeling complex horizons, the mind of a worm; quite a bit of personal news.

Jun 29 • 

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October 2024

The Hidden Bird Algorithm

Simulating flocks in the shadows of Hollywood.

Oct 13, 2024 • 

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September 2024

What's a Brain?

On bacterial, cellular, and other minimal minds.

Sep 29, 2024 • 

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August 2024

The Colony Makes The World

On the emergent intelligence of ant colonies; ecologies of entanglement; a New Release!

Aug 4, 2024 • 

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July 2024

The Queen's Doll's House

On the freaky model world of the Dollomites; plus—more lucid dreaming and a roundup of recent favorites.

Jul 2, 2024 • 

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June 2024

The Inner Space Race

On the deepest holes in the world and what we did—or didn't—find there.

Jun 9, 2024 • 

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May 2024

Hyperlink Island

Note: this week I’m trying something new and sharing some fiction.

May 12, 2024 • 

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April 2024

A Forest from the Moon

In 1971, the astronaut Stuart Roosa, a former U.S. Forest Service ranger who’d logged his first flight miles smoke-jumping wildfires in Oregon, brought…

Apr 28, 2024 • 

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March 2024

When Animals Dream

A conversation about animal dreaming with philosopher David M. Peña-Guzmán.

Mar 17, 2024 • 

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February 2024

Brighter Than a Cloud

How to describe a scintillating scotoma?

Feb 18, 2024 • 

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Would the Buddha Wear a Walkman?

A few months ago I wrote a newsletter about lucid dreaming. After a night of uncharacteristic sleep deprivation, I’d experienced a visceral flying…

Feb 2, 2024 • 

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