Intuition is real, but not everywhere — Within the first ten moves, a game of chess can exist in one of 69,352,859,712,417 permutations. Despite its rigid rules — pawns that shift up, knights that move in L’s — the power of emergence quickly transports chess into a world of immense complexity. And yet, when the current world…

Your choices aren’t yours. What now? — Recently, we’ve started questioning the one thing we always thought was obvious — our ability to choose. The deeper we go, the more we realize free will it isn’t just a given. …

Let’s explore the aisles of Moralitymart — One of my unspoken pet peeves is how seemingly every antibacterial wipe, laundry detergent, and dish soap claims to be the best on the market. Of course, not every single brand can offer the best product. …

Understanding the universe’s most popular particle — Next time you see a face, watch your favourite YouTube video, or enjoy a nice sunset, try to remember that you’re taking invisible disturbances in electromagnetic fields and turning them into a world of colour. Red, yellow, blue, everything in between — bouncing, reflecting, combining into rainbows, pouring out of…

Thoughts at the end of my first-ever job. — Considering how it’s been so long since I last wrote here, I thought it’d be the perfect time to catch up and remind people that I actually haven’t disappeared from the face of the Earth. For the past month, I was interning for a startup called Talk Social, where we…

It all starts with (over)population — If you had to give every single person on the planet a handshake — assuming each handshake takes you about a second — it would take you about 240 years to get through everyone. That’s well over three lifetimes of shaking hands, from the second you’re born to the…

Helping outsmart the world’s deadliest disease. — About half of humanity will develop cancer in their lives. For another half of these people, or a quarter of the world’s entire population, cancer is going to be what takes their lives, too. While cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, I’d argue that cancer isn’t the…

Timeless Rules From Over 400 Years Ago — Miyamoto Musashi was a 14th century Japanese warrior that is widely seen as the greatest swordsman who ever lived. At 16, Musashi fought on the losing side of a war. At this time in Japan, it was tradition for any survivors of a lost conflict to commit suicide to preserve…

High school science class on steroids. — This is a cell. It’s the smallest thing you could consider alive: