David Boles: Human Meme Podcast
1) The Hollow Men Explained: T.S. Eliot's Sources, Meaning, and Modern Relevance
The concept of spiritual and moral hollowness that T.S. Eliot crystallized in "The Hollow Men" (1925) emerged from a crisis of meaning that had been building in Western consciousness since the mid-nin...Show More
2) AI, AGI, and the Future of Humanity: A 2025 Analysis
A persistent gap between public imagination and technical reality defines the common understanding of artificial intelligence. The popular discourse, shaped by a century of fiction, centers on the fea...Show More
3) From Photograph to Flesh: The AI That Reincarnated the Past
The old archivist, Dr. Aris Thorne, felt a jolt of audacious heresy as he slid the glossy print into the maw of the machine. It was a photograph that had become a part of the national bloodstream, an ...Show More
4) The Digital Specter: Navigating the Murky Waters of Online Trolls and Harassing Reviews
In the sprawling, often-anonymous landscape of the internet, a persistent shadow lurks, eager to sow discord and inflict reputational harm: the online troll. These digital phantoms, armed with keyboar...Show More
5) Less Than vs. Fewer Than: The Difference Explained (With Examples)
It's a wonderfully curious thing, isn't it, how two little words like "less" and "fewer" can stir up so much conversation and, at times, even a little bit of friendly debate? Itâs a perfect example of...Show More
6) Alien Ingredients Are Everywhere, So Where Is The Life?
So, after all this time, have we ever actually found evidence of alien life on Earth? It's a question that gets to the heart of our place in the universe. For more than fifty years, weâve been looking...Show More
7) Black Holes Explained: Formation, Evidence, and the Universe Inside Theory
The cosmos harbors many mysteries, but few capture our imagination as completely as black holes, regions of spacetime where gravity so dominates that nothing, not even light, can escape once it crosse...Show More
8) Tyranny and Triumph of the Clock
Nowhere was the tension between local and standard time more vivid than in Indiana. Before 2006, the state was a confusing patchwork of time observance. Some counties followed Daylight Saving, while o...Show More
9) If the Center Holds: Exploring an Enduring Metaphor
The phrase âif the center holdsâ has its conceptual roots in the broader cultural and literary assertion that social, political, or ideological cohesion can be sustained only so long as the core remai...Show More
10) Deus Ex Machina: Complete 3000-Year History from Ancient Greece to Future Philosophy
The legal systems of this era struggled to adapt to these new realities. The Restored Justice Protocols of 2900 allowed victims of crimes to be restored from backup, effectively undoing the crime itse...Show More