Detective Z sat at his desk, staring out the window of his dingy office. The city was alive with the hustle and bustle of the late afternoon, but he felt a sense of emptiness inside. He was a hard-boiled detective, a man who had seen it all and then some. …

by Bill Lauritzen — I am a machine. According to all of the available, and reproducible, evidence a complex adaptive system selected by nature to help reduce the energy difference between the cold, dark side and the warm, sunny side of the Earth — much like a tornado reduces pressure differences in the atmosphere. …

by Bill Lauritzen I was once teaching some middle school students math at an exclusive private school. I had one student who was annoying me and the other students. The administration was not supportive of my attempts at disciplining him. I came up with this solution: I told him if…

by Bill Lauritzen I’d been teaching in China for five years. Before that I worked in the USA teaching for many years in many different schools and colleges and at many different levels. As a child in the USA, my parents were American Tiger Parents and I was pushed all…

by Bill Lauritzen The physical infrastructure of our society includes its roads, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications and more recently the Internet. However, there is another, nonphysical infrastructure that I think is equally important to our long term survival and prosperity. This is the knowledge infrastructure. …

by Bill Lauritzen Although researchers have classified emotions in various ways, I present the propositions that: 1) certain personal emotions can be ordered along a curved continuum from the most positive to the most negative, tending toward the neutral bottom of the curve, 2) this order can be empirically tested, and 3) this order has…

by Bill Lauritzen Einstein sometimes used the word “God.” In this chapter I am going to describe and elaborate on “Einstein’s God.” I think you might find it interesting. So let’s first look at some of his books and letters. Perhaps his most famous letter is called the “God Letter”…

I was Adopted by Aliens by Bill Lauritzen About 2008, while I was substitute teaching at Culver City High School, I received a message on my mobile phone from the Vice Principal to call her as soon as possible. I gulped, and at lunchtime, made the call. …

I was once a very successful student with high grades and remarkable athletic achievements, and I was accepted at Yale, Stanford, and USC. However, I was a fake. In fact, I was worse than a fake, because I didn’t know I was a fake. …