The Discontinuity Dilemma: Energy, Mars, and Infinity

At the time of this writing, every person on Earth uses an average of 33 kilos of resources every day, translating to 12 tons of materials per person each year. And people in the Western world (aka the First World) use up to 74 kilos of resources daily—with over 100 billion tons of terrestrial resources mined each year. Global material …

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Our Mind Children

Genealogy is often described as a journey into one’s past, a quest to dig up the intricate (and often deeply buried) roots and branches of the family tree. Recently, I have been spending a lot of time (digging up the past) and trying to piece together my own family tree.  My experiment began out of simple curiosity—who am I and …