Consider the Platypus, Thomas Nagel, and More

A duck-like bill that electrically detects living things, a venomous spur, bizarre reproductive organs — the platypus is a strange creature... more »

Palo Alto is a new Olympus, where flip-flopped geniuses save the world. Or so holds a common misperception... more »

Thomas Nagel compels us to confront the possibility that the most fundamental problems of …