A first-principles look at the cell: what it is, whether it counts as a living thing in its own right, how a single genome builds roughly two hundred different kinds of cells, and what happens when that system breaks down.
Why most people never explicitly ask what their life means, and how — from Kierkegaard to Nietzsche to Heidegger — that question became one philosophy can't put down.
The two great twentieth-century answers to a meaningless universe — Camus' revolt and Sartre's created meaning — why they might not contradict each other, and what psychology made of it all.
Critical thinking gets praised constantly and practiced rarely. Let's ask what it actually is, where it comes from, and why it's so easy to mistake other things for it.