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How The Fossil Record Shows The Rise Of Machines - 2022/08/26

Grave goods mark the evolution of commodities, not human beings
Between Waking And Dreaming - 2022/08/24

On the unreality of reality and the power of dreams
The Natural History Museum Is A Tomb - 2022/08/22

They took all the species and put them in a species museum
Why Humans Won’t Go Extinct From Climate Collapse - 2022/05/13

But boy will it suck
How Cars Are The Apex Predators - 2022/02/05

If aliens were looking down from space, why would they think the roadkill are in charge?
How Cognitive Science Helps Me Write - 2022/01/27

The science (and art) of connecting brains
How To Keep COVID Away From Your Fucking Face (an Infographic) - 2022/01/24

Masks should be our last line of defense, not our first
How Omicron Makes A Mockery Of Herd Immunity - 2021/12/23

We’ve gone from COVID-19 to COVID-∞
We Need To Talk About Long COVID - 2021/12/12

It’s serious, and we need to take patients seriously
How Humans Must Adapt To Climate Collapse Or Die (And How We'll Probably Die Anyways) - 2021/12/10

A long historical view on climate, capitalism, and life
What We SHOULD Learn From The Pandemic - 2021/12/04

I mean, we won't, but we should
How Commodities Are Artificial Life - 2021/11/10

Marx's commodity fetish wasn't necrophilia
A Brief History Of Human Communication - 2021/09/09

From orality to literacy and back again
The Monkey Roots Of Inequality - 2021/05/14

We keep appealing to reason but we're just apes
How Science Is Not Good - 2021/03/12

Why we can’t just follow the science
How Water Keeps Us Alive - 2021/03/07

Biologically speaking, we’re just walking water balloons
mRNA Vaccines Belong To The World - 2021/03/06

No one is safe until mRNA factories are everywhere
How Geology Buries Black Voters - 2020/11/04

Voter suppression is built into the bedrock of the USA
The Terrible Beauty of COVID-19 (in GIFs) - 2020/08/25

How the coronavirus looks, and what it does inside your body
Corporations Are Already AI - 2020/08/20

The stock market is sentient and it hates you
The Problem With Public Masking - 2020/07/14

Most infection happens in private
How Viruses Are Misunderstood - 2020/06/20

Viruses are great
How Porn Can Help Fight Coronavirus - 2020/05/27

The porn industry has a robust testing and tracing system. It can be studied and scaled.
How To Test Everyone — Thru Poop - 2020/05/01

Three studies on detecting COVID-19 in wastewater
Everyone Has Two Immune Systems - 2020/04/30

One in your body and one outside
Why People Believe In Fake Cures - 2020/04/07

Because they work
Don’t Blame China For Coronavirus. Blame Everyone - 2020/03/27

China wasn’t much slower than anybody else
The Latest Coronavirus Drugs and Vaccines - 2020/03/20

In two infographics
Will Warm Weather Kill Coronavirus? - 2020/03/18

Probably not
COVID-19 May Infect Half The World - 2020/02/25

Don’t panic, but this is getting pandemic
Green Energy Is Now As Cheap As Fossil Fuels - 2020/02/06

Fossil Fuels are the energy of the past
India Wants To Fight Coronavirus With Arsenic - 2020/01/31

When misinformation comes from the top
What Scientists Say About The Coronavirus - 2020/01/30

A review of two recent studies
A Metro Map Of Our Solar System - 2020/01/29

The almost free gravity train around the solar system
Forget Mars. We Should Colonize Venus First - 2020/01/20

Venus is our galactic AirBnB
Bacteria Is An Immortal, Living God - 2020/01/10

The life that gave us life
Why Space Travel Sucks - 2019/12/24

Humans can’t stand, bathe or poop properly in space
How Humans Have Been Cheating Death For 10,000 Years - 2019/12/02

A brief history of energy, à la Vaclav Smil
Climate Change Is The Birth Of AI - 2019/11/26

Carbon is the first geological sign of a new lifeform
How Nature Reuses Code - 2019/11/24

The original agile developer
How Humans Broke The Climate Computer - 2019/11/21

Microbes created the third atmosphere. Human beings are breaking it
The Angry Ghosts Of Climate Change - 2019/11/19

Fossil fuels were alive once. We shouldn’t have dug them up
Climate Change Is Breaking The Monsoon - 2019/09/25

Extreme temperatures = extreme rains = extremely bad
The Global Energy Supply In One Infographic - 2019/09/16

Renewables, fossil fuels, and life
The Earth’s Weird Gravity - 2019/09/02

Why space flight would be cheaper in Sri Lanka
Humans Will Never Colonize Space - 2019/07/22

The stars belong to the machines
This Isn’t The First Climate Crisis We’ve Caused - 2019/06/14

Life has changed climate for billions of years
Why It’s Not Really A New Year - 2018/01/02

Billions of people still celebrate an ‘old’ new year
Why Humans Are Bad (A Poem) - 2017/12/17

We’re asking the wrong question
Why Humans Will Never Conquer Space - 2017/11/28

Look at that astronaut. So lonely. And look at his backpack.