The following is a list of active questions I’m currently trying to answer.
Personal/Social
- What does it look like to live with a child’s heart while remaining clear-eyed and avoiding naivety?
- What are some good ways to help the homeless?
- What are some strategies for knowing when to be publicly judgmental or truth-telling and when to keep quiet?
Art/Music
- Compositionally, why is there a balcony behind Gabriel in Botticelli’s Cestello Annunciation?
- Where did Hieronymus Bosch inherit his symbolic thinking, and did that thread of artistic tradition continue or die out?
- What is the viewer supposed to admire or understand from French impressionists like Renoir?
Sex
- Sexual desires seem to arise during intense bouts of creativity. How are sexual impulses connected with creative impulses?
- Does sex have a routine dimension and a deep dimension? Or does it have only a deep dimension, and every other manifestation is a corruption?
- What sociobiological functions do transgenderism and homosexuality serve?
Science
- What might be the biological or evolutionary purpose of the following diseases, and are there ways to cure them?
- Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
- Tourette’s Syndrome
- Dermatophagia
- Are there benefits to staying up late at night sometimes?
Teaching
- Who ought to be the audience for a student essay, and why?
- What should be expected, as far as research skills, from freshman comp students?