Daniel Kolitz's posts

You could argue that every second spent discussing humans colonizing the solar system is a second not spent…

We live in a world of refuse—not simply the orange peels, Amazon boxes, and old TVs rotting away in landfills but…

Plumage. An incredible world, for an incredible phenomenon. Say it with me now: plumage. Picture the colors, their…

It’s a nice day, you’re strolling along, music’s queued up, prospects looking good, your sweater’s matching your…

The problem with having skin is that it’s not blemishless and can burn very badly and is liable to develop rashes or…

This week’s question—could the world ever run entirely on renewable energy?—is shadowed by a much larger one:…

In an ideal world, virtual reality would be just like regular reality, except without regular reality’s annoying…

If you would like to know what it feels like to die, while at the same time continuing to live, you have a number of…

The list of such names is long and spans centuries. But who among them was the most monstrous?

Bodies are machines designed to remind you of death, to semi-continuously blare out the fact of your mortality,…

Scientists, or at least their wild-haired fictional counterparts, promised us time travel and still have not…

It is easy to be pessimistic about the future. It is also easy to scientifically verify that pessimism through…

Once a day, at least, I’ll tear up listening to music. Just a drop or two, or not even a drop, just a pre-cry…

The Neanderthal of popular imagination is a hideous, ape-like being, lumbering around with his or her crude spear.…

I’m writing this on a Tuesday, at 2:26 p.m. Minutes ago, it was 9 a.m., or so it feels; back then, I was enjoying…

Earlier this month, a kind of chirping, rainforest-y sound sprung up in my apartment. It came from my roommate’s…

Among the recreational drugs currently entering the psychiatric mainstream (MDMA, LSD, etc.), ketamine is something…

It’s easy to attribute omnipotence to one’s devices. I’d hate to know what my iPhone knows about me. That said,…

Earlier this year, a research team made waves by suggesting that we should disseminate Earth’s microbes on Mars in a…