Archive for April, 2026

Aristotle on Comedy

Saturday, April 11th, 2026

We do not have Aristotle’s work on Comedy promised to us in the Poetics, but we might be able to get a rough idea of what he would have said from clues in his surviving writings and commentaries from later ancient authors. The principal evidence directly from Aristotle is the passage ...

Reconsidering the Options for Bracewell Probes

Thursday, April 9th, 2026

In 1960, Ronald Bracewell proposed[1] that technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilisations might send automated probes to other star systems capable of detecting and communicating with any appropriately advanced civilizations that they might exist. Such probes are called Bracewell probes. Bracewell included the condition that the probes would require at least a degree ...