Evan Thompson

Bellevue

Writer, The Best Schools and Red Ventures at Freelance

Careers/Education writer for BestColleges. Former journalist with bylines in @SeattleTimes, @thenewstribune, @EverettHerald, @EllensburgDR, and others.

Articles

How Human Experience Makes Science Possible

Jan 22, 2025 | resilience.org | Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser |Evan Thompson

This adapted excerpt is from The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience by Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson (2025, MIT Press). It is reproduced with permission from MIT Press. This adaptation was produced for the web by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover.
How Human Experience Makes Science Possible

Jan 22, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser |Evan Thompson

The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover. Unless we understand how this paradox arises and what it means, we will never be able to understand science as a human activity, and we will keep defaulting to the view that nature is something to gain mastery over.
Why AI will never be able to acquire human-level intelligence

Jan 20, 2025 | flipboard.com | Jose Muñoz |José Muñoz |Javier Bernácer |Alva Noë |Evan Thompson

10 hours agoDuring his first day in office, President Donald Trump revoked a 2023 executive order signed by former President Joe Biden that sought to reduce the potential risks AI poses to consumers, workers, and national security. Biden’s executive order directed the Commerce Department’s National Institute of …
How Human Experience Makes Science Possible

Jan 17, 2025 | slguardian.org | Adam Thompson |Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser |Evan Thompson

The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover. Unless we understand how this paradox arises and what it means, we will never be able to understand science as a human activity, and we will keep defaulting to the view that nature is something to gain mastery over.
How Human Experience Makes Science Possible - Analysis

Jan 17, 2025 | eurasiareview.com | Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser |Evan Thompson

The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover. Unless we understand how this paradox arises and what it means, we will never be able to understand science as a human activity, and we will keep defaulting to the view that nature is something to gain mastery over.
Who really won when Bergson and Einstein debated time?

Sep 30, 2024 | aeon.co | Evan Thompson

On the evening of 6 April 1922, during a lecture in Paris, the philosopher Henri Bergson and the physicist Albert Einstein clashed over the nature of time in one of the great intellectual debates of the 20th century. Einstein, who was then 43 years old, had been brought from Berlin to speak at the Société française de philosophie about his theory of relativity, which had captivated and shocked the world.
Clock time contra lived time - Evan Thompson

Sep 30, 2024 | qoshe.com | Evan Thompson

On the evening of 6 April 1922, during a lecture in Paris, the philosopher Henri Bergson and the physicist Albert Einstein clashed over the nature of time in one of the great intellectual debates of the 20th century. Einstein, who was then 43 years old, had been brought from Berlin to speak at the Société française de philosophie about his theory of relativity, which had captivated and shocked the world.
The "blind spot" in science that's fueling a crisis of meaning

Mar 7, 2024 | bigthink.com | Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser |Evan Thompson

Adapted from The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human ExperienceOur scientific worldview has gotten stuck in an impossible contradiction, making our present crisis fundamentally a crisis of meaning. On the one hand, science appears to make human life seem ultimately insignificant. The grand narratives of cosmology and evolution present us as a tiny contingent accident in a vast indifferent Universe.
I Peered Into the Mysteries of the Universe and Found Only More Mysteries

Mar 5, 2024 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Adam Frank |Marcelo Gleiser |Evan Thompson

When I was a kid, I dreamed of transcendence even if I didn’t know to call it by that name. I walked through the world with my head in the stars, trading the industrial wastelands of New Jersey for pictures of distant galaxies, my leaky roof for books about the solar system. I spent hours in my room dreaming of space-suited astronauts bounding over alien landscapes. Whenever things were bad, I retreated into space and science.
Ian Kennedy To Retire

Nov 3, 2023 | baseball.realgm.com | Evan Thompson

Ian Kennedy is retiring from baseball. While Kennedy indicated he had made the decision that this would be his final season going into 2023, he acknowledged "there's no better way to go out" than as a member of a Texas Rangers team that clinched the franchise's first title. Kennedy logged 16 1/3 innings for the Rangers this season, posting a 7.16 ERA and 21 strikeouts. The right-hander was a first-round pick of the New York Yankees in 2006.