Exhalation: Stories

“Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity,”

We spoke for more than an hour, and my fascination and respect bloomed like a flower warmed by the dawn,

experience is algorithmically incompressible.

People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different fo

writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated.

The economy goes into a recession after the latest flu pandemic, prompting changes in the virtual worlds.

He published papers on number theory and lectured at Cambridge until his death in 1918, during the global influenza pandemic.

When we speak, we use the breath in our lungs to give our thoughts a physical form. The sounds we make are simultaneously our intentions and our life force.

Brahman Hindus believe that by reciting mantras, they are strengthening the building blocks of reality.

Set up a rack of billiard balls and execute a flawless break. Imagine the table has no pockets and is frictionless, so the balls just keep rebounding, never coming to a stop; how accurately can you predict the path of any given ball as it collides against the others? In 1978, the physicist Michael Berry calculated that you could predict only nine c