TV seriesThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(1981), adapted from the book by Douglas Adams, the supercomputer Deep Thought explains to its programmers that after 7.5 million years of computing, it has calculated that the answer to the question of "Life, the Universe and Everything" is 42...
hyperbolically reference "42" from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as a whimsical placeholder in the search for meaning. In scientific discourse, an integration of theories such as emergence, complexity, and the anthropic principle could yield nuanced interpretations of life'...
In 1978, when Douglas Adams wroteThe Hitchhiker’s Guide, this was an entertaining satire—an absurd exaggeration of something that one might imagine happening in a much less flamboyant way in real life. But now it’s just true. Public politics in major Western democracies is mostly culture w...
My search for grace and meaning after a former care partnering life with a wife who suffered from Parkinson's disease and dementia giving her a confused and disorienting world.