The scene that has stayed with most viewers of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar is not the wave-planet, or the visualised black hole, or the climactic library of moments.
In 2016, during the dry season when water levels in a communal pond in northeastern Thailand had receded enough to expose its edges, a local resident in Chaiyaphum province noticed a pile of large bones along the bank.
The statement is one that most adults will, at some point, have made. They want to be alone.
The cosmos, in any honest accounting, is silent, slow, vast, and almost entirely indifferent to whether we are in it.
The standard cultural framing of where one's nervous system is located tends to assume that the nervous system is, in any meaningful sense, all in the head.
I study how people form emotional relationships with places and ideas. Which means I notice when those relationships quietly break.
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