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ecology7
Michael Cervieri

"On land, multicellular life stays pretty close to the surface. But every depth of the ocean is inhabited, in numbers that we are just beginning to ap

People do not want to believe it is true - Christian Åslund, The photographer capturing the vanishing of glaciers

Wheat did it by manipulating Homo sapiens to its advantage. This ape had been living a fairly comfortable life hunting and gathering until about 10,00

The progressivist party line sometimes even goes so far as to credit agriculture with the remarkable flowering of art that has taken place over the pa

Ideas9
Michael Cervieri

Long ago we had passed the stage of asking what was the meaning of life, a naïve query which understands life as the attaining of some aim through the

Journalists aren’t wrong to interview people in power. But when that’s all they do, they let power – rather than expertise – define the boundaries of

I built and sold a business that allowed me to retire at age 44. It was called Data Storage, Inc., information, knowledge, and records management is m

George Leonard on how mastery is nothing but a series of plateaus with brief spurts of progress: “The most important lessons here — especially for yo

Clever9

Clever words, objects and things.

Michael Cervieri

I saw a Linus LTT video about how normies won't use mastodon and thought, that's fine. Most of the places I grew up on using the web weren't used by n

How do you organize your books?Haphazardly, which is how I believe books wish to be organized

We know it seems weird, but as it turns out, your anal print is unique. - Sanjiv Gambhir, ‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease

Technology2
Michael Cervieri

Hard tech is the tools themselves. Soft tech is the knowledge and practices needed to effectively use tools. If you give a chimp a bow and arrow, h

We know it seems weird, but as it turns out, your anal print is unique. - Sanjiv Gambhir, ‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease

odds and ends1
Michael Cervieri

In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New