Fundamentally the issue is clear: if I leave my home and choose the most polluting and antisocial form of transport my local authority makes this easy; if I try to be responsible, pro-social and healthy, my local authority makes this hard

I just sat down in a chair, and was supported because of trillions of quantum-mechanical interactions between the particles in my butt and the particles in the seat. This lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, an idea first propo

"I think of 'thinking' not only as a very enjoyable activity but also something akin to taking your mind for a walk around a question the way you might take a dog around the block for a walk."
- Ursula Franklin in "Thinking about Technology"