essays unrelated to computer science

• Capturing Infinity by Watching the Clock, 2025 July 25
• Time Dilation, 2024 March 20
• a Testimonial to Cliff Jones, 2024 January 7, published in A.Cavalcanti, J.Baxter (editors): the Practice of Formal Methods: Essays in Honour of Cliff Jones, Springer LNCS 14780, 2024 September 4
• the Nature of Science, 2023 April 4
• a Conversation between a Platonist and a Formalist, 2022 July 21
• a Tribute to Edsger Dijkstra, 2021 January 19, published in K.R.Apt, C.A.R.Hoare: Edsger W. Dijkstra: a Commemoration, 2021 March 30
• Better Speed Control, 2020 November 22
• Gender Equality, 2019 April 11
• Big Numbers, 2019 February 9
• Romantic Availability, 2018 August 29
• Sunk Cost Fallacy, 2018 May 12
• the End of Evolution, 2018 January 26
• Advice to a Radical Thinker, 2017 December 1
• Arguing Atheism, 2017 May 30
• Teaching Tactics, 2016 July 27
• Left-handed Homosexuals, 2014 May 4
• Grammatical Annoyances, 2013 October 18
• Scientific Publication, 2013 August 24, published in University Affairs Magazine, 2014 June
• Marriage, 2013 July 9
• Toward Democracy, 2013 April 19, updated 2019-6-25
• Abolish Political Parties, 2013 March 31
• Self, 2013 March 16
• the Gambler and the Mathematician, 2011 November 15
• Cameras Everywhere, 2009 July 28
• Insurance and Gambling, 2009 June 13
• Money and Taxes, 2009 March 9
• the Meaning of Mathematics, 1986, published in the Logic of Programming and Calculi of Discrete Design, NATO Advanced Studies Institute Series, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg
• Portation, 1971, revised 2009 February 14