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Cixin Liu • The Wandering Earth
many who find the report useful overall argue that these ‘boundary’ points should not be written in stone, but viewed as a heuristic. “Ever since early humans discovered fire and the benefits of collaborative systems such as collective hunting and social learning, human systems, not the classic biophysical limits that still constrain other species,
... See moreLeigh Phillips • Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts: A Defence Of Growth, Progress, Industry And Stuff
we cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.
John Brockman • This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)
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Cixin Liu • The Wandering Earth
Het komt er, kortom, op aan dat we de mogelijkheid van uitsterving onder ogen zien. In het korte essay ‘Over vergankelijkheid’ (1915) onderzoekt Sigmund Freud waarom we het besef dat alle leven eindig is toch zo moeilijk kunnen aanvaarden. Hij beschrijft hierin hoe een dichter – waarschijnlijk Rainer Maria Rilke – waarmee hij door de Dolomieten
... See moreLisa Doeland • Apocalypsofie (Dutch Edition)
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
“Tensegrity.”
Neal Stephenson • Seveneves: A Novel
In the 1930s, Max Kleiber, a Swiss agricultural biologist, observed that, across mammal species, from shrews to elephants, the energy required to maintain basic metabolic function is closely correlated with an organism’s body size.