Sublime

The world’s oceans are both the most important and the most problematic piece of the earth’s climate system. They hold more than 90 percent of the climate’s heat and are its long-term memory.

Memories are microscopic. Tiny particles that swarm together and apart. Little people, Edison called them. Entities. He had a theory about where they came from and that theory was outer space.

Such tools have a way of making places feel slightly

To battle disorder and allow information to grow, our universe has a few tricks up its sleeve. These tricks involve out-of-equilibrium systems, the accumulation of information in solids, and the ability of matter to compute. Together these three mechanisms contribute to the growth of information in small islands or pockets where information can

Bureaucracy and mythology are both essential for maintaining order, and both are happy to sacrifice truth for the sake of order. What mechanisms, then, ensure that bureaucracy and mythology don’t lose touch with truth altogether, and what mechanisms enable information networks to identify and correct their own mistakes, even at the price of some

Buoyancy comes from filling much of the space in the hull with syntactic foam, a substance that is both light and resistant to pressure.