The Fiction Fallacy: Part 1, The Problem
In the day to day tedium of life, I often turn to fiction for comfort. I appeal to fictions in part because they help pass the time, and also because […]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
On Love and Polygamy: Lessons from Malawi
Morning finds me strolling along the dusty roadside, small fires grilling maize into crispy gold, dough bubbling in hot vats of oil…the village coming to life. I reach the little […]
On the Boundaries of Bioethics: Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and Euthanasia
Prelude One February night, my father and I were waiting at a commuter train station in the suburb where he lived. We were waiting to pick up a friend coming […]
Santa Muerte: Remembering Saints Are People Too
Though I’m not religious, I have a bit of an obsession with saints. I’m talking the Catholic ones. I love their individual stories. I love their collective history. I love […]
Applied Sentience 