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You can shift your frame of mind so everything you experience in daily life is like the discovery of aliens. You’re fully justified in treating every interaction with every part of the world with that same sense of wonder and amazement.
Insights from science and technology offer portals into this frame of mind. In the long run, this could be the most powerful role our scientific knowledge will play in the future of humanity.
Richard Milner’s new book is about Charles R. Knight, who is famous for his elaborate depictions of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
V. V. Raman’s magnum opus. In ten succinct chapters, he traces the development of Indian religion and philosophy from its distant origins to its most recent evolutions in an age of science. Comprehensive, scholarly, and eminently readable.
A new report offers some challenging numbers to digest.
The scale of digital information generated and the terminology thereof.
It’s a new way to visualize Big History.
Is it possible that there are many other humanlike or “humanoid” species? If so, is it possible that they, too, have histories—histories that might be similar in some ways to our own, histories from which we might even have something useful to learn?
The way humans tend to answer big questions is through stories. For generations, humans gathered around hearth and fire to tell and retell stories. Today, people are more likely to gather around the cool glow of the television or the computer screen, but we are no less storied creatures.
It is light that weaves the distant corners of the universe into a cosmic wholeness and that informs us of the presence of people and things beyond ourselves.