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31 Dec 2025 Archive Edition
31 Dec 2025 Archive Edition
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“I have a worldview. So do you.”
- Michael Alan Prestwood
- 2024
Every person walks through life with a personal lens shaped by experience, belief, and knowledge. Recognizing you have a worldview — and that everyone else does too — is the first step toward understanding, empathy, and clearer thinking. Once you see your own lens, you can finally adjust it.
Weekly Crossroads: Takeaways
Wisdom at the crossroads of knowledge.
Wisdom emerges from the consistent exploration of the intersections of philosophy, science, critical thinking, and history.
1START: Science »
Is “the speed of light” really the best name for the universe’s maximum speed?
The so-called speed of light is better understood as the universal speed limit or speed of causality. Light and gravity obey it, though light can be delayed by matter. Meanwhile, space itself can expand faster than this limit. That nuance matters when thinking about cosmology—and future unified theories.
2Philosophy »
Was Einstein’s Theory of Relativity ever irrational?
In the Idea of Ideas, all discoveries begin as irrational, not wrong, just untested. Einstein’s general relativity was once an unverified challenge to Newton’s gravity. Only after the 1919 eclipse confirmed its predictions did it become empirical truth. That transition, from irrational to empirical, is how real knowledge grows and finds a place within rational frameworks of the Grand Rational Framework.
3Critical Thinking »
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