We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

Running for president is the new selfie.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.