Digest — 2026-02-18:

Esteban Cabeza de Baca’s time travels

Low Traffic Blogging, or Please Don't Make My Posts Go Viral

Nothing works without internet anymore

Blogging or thinking about blogging?

what's my age again?

Bear-ly Awake

5 sci-fi aliens — and the likelihood they could actually exist

Snouters, dinosauroids, and other animals that never were

Why organisms are more than machines

How bioengineering will help save the planet

How reading books regulates your nervous system

Athletes keep breaking records — and they may never stop

How to deter biothreats in the age of gene synthesis

5 sci-fi books that foreshadowed the future of biology

Metabolism, not cells or genetics, may have begun life on Earth

Biology’s New Era

Hermann Hesse on Solitude, the Value of Hardship, the Courage to Be Yourself, and How to Find Your Destiny

Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

How to Shed the Surface-Self: The Forgotten Visionary Evelyn Underhill on Touching the Depths of Being