The key implication of Cosmological Natural Selection • Probably the most important single insight I've ever had gets its own post, at last

A short, late, but positive update • Blowtorch Theory seems to be having an impact

Alien Poop Means We Are Not Alone. But Let Me Just Adjust This Model Parameter... • K2-18b and our new age of alien agnosticism

The Blowtorch Theory: A New Model for Structure Formation in the Universe • How early, sustained, supermassive black hole jets carved out cosmic voids, shaped filaments, and generated magnetic fields

The mystery of the Little Red Dots has been solved – and once more Eggiverse triumphs over Rockiverse! • Three emails showing you a glimpse behind the scenes of science, during this fascinating transition to a new paradigm

Life Without Stars: Stanets and Ploons • The implications of an important 2023 paper have not been fully understood: it is possible most life in our universe is in the deep oceans of icy moons, orbiting planets that do not orbit stars

Short update on funding, conferences, Zoom calls for paid subscribers, etc. • With some hints on what I've been writing, and when you'll get to see it...

The deep ocean floor is covered in naturally-occurring batteries that make oxygen... Wait, WHAT?! • This has HUGE implications for life on icy moons. Interesting New Paper #3...

GUEST POST: Robert Hazen on whether there’s a “missing law of nature” • Plus a stack of notes from me, explaining how Hazen's invigorating ideas are entirely compatible with cosmological natural selection: Darwinian evolution of universes supplies that "missing law"

Why the Gambler’s Fallacy argument does not apply to cosmological natural selection • My email to Philip Goff, in response to his Scientific American essay, in which he argues against multiverse explanations for our complex, fine-tuned universe

My dad is still dead; but life, ah, life goes on • A personal update

My father has died suddenly and unexpectedly • This is for anyone who knew him

Down to the flickering sea of quarks • Exploring the profound flaw that underlies all our current theories of the universe

Icy Moons, 1: There’s phosphorus on Enceladus! • From alchemists to ice volcanos: an attempt to understand, and explain, the liquid water oceans sloshing about deep inside the icy moons of Saturn, & Jupiter, &, well, everywhere we look...

The Emperor’s New Universe • (I am experimenting with a shorter, punchier, more polemical style for some posts, like this one. Not to replace the longer, more sober posts, but as an extra. Tell me what you think in the comments.)

If you are going to San Francisco... • Let's meet up

Holy crap, I've just realised that cosmological natural selection gives you the structure of the universe (FIRST DRAFT #1, give me feedback...) • OK, I’ve got a brilliant idea, not yet well expressed. (I tweeted it to a grumpy old man.) Help me make it better.