Category Thoughts

A grim reminder An unknown world teems with life Once a grander sight

Decibels increase exponentially since they’re measured logarithmically. Near silence is expressed as 0 dB but a sound measured at 10 dB is actually 10 times louder. If a sound is 20 dB, that’s 100 times louder than near silence. Here’s…

Continually looking for the meaning of life is like looking for the meaning of toast, it is sometimes better to just eat the toast.

Professor Paul Piff is a social psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley. He examines the origins of human kindness and cooperation, and the social consequences of economic inequality. One of his experiments looked at which drivers stop for pedestrians,…

Indoor vertical farms create the perfect environment for plants, reducing the unpredictability of changing climates. No pesticides or GMOs either. It packs 350x more crops in the same space used for traditional farming.

Framework creates customisable modular laptops. This is antithetical to the modern laptop (planned obsolescence) because it promises to let you personalise, repair, and upgrade it easily – while remaining affordable. The modular setup means you can replace faulty hardware without…

A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light cannot get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is…

Saving the biosphere must be seen as a moral enterprise and the most urgent task in human existence if we want to exist for the next millennia. Our species has to quickly decide if our dominant decision-making forces should be…