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Do Composers Die Young? Yes, they have shorter life expectancy
Last February, I asked different AIs (ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek) to investigate if composers have historically died younger than other professions. Two of them couldn’t answer…
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Surprising Optimism: Finally Something Good from Stefan Sagmeister
The man to my right stared at me incredulously. He had the seat next to mine in the back of Cowell Theatre, and I had…
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Venus: It’s too h-o-t-t-o-g-o
The only images that we have from the surface of Venus are from the 1970s and 1980s. They were taken by the Soviet Venera landers,…
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Job Security is Higher in Europe: That may be a problem
Americans are ten times more likely to be fired than Europeans, according to Works in Progress. 0.1 percent of German employees will be fired in a…
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You Generate More Energy Than the Sun: A Fermi Calculation
According to the second law of thermodynamics, the amount of disorder or entropy in the universe can only ever increase. There are pockets of order…
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An Answer to Jimmy Carter: Life is common, intelligence is rare
In Bully for Brontosaurus, evolutionary biologist quotes this letter he received from president Jimmy Carter in response to one of his essays. You seem to…
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