From Wolves to Pets: A 25,000-Year Journey
The unique human-dog relationship is a product of human-led evolution, beginning when ancient wolves were genetically molded into dogs by artificial selection over $25,000$ years. This process, sped up by the dog's short generation time, created extreme diversity (from wolf to Chihuahua). Today, the bond is expressed as family because modern safety (vaccines) removed historical constraints, allowing the shared oxytocin neurochemical loop—an evolved, biological reality—to fully affirm the dog as our closest, most devoted companion.
Could We Build Plastic Icebergs to Save the Arctic? Re-evaluating a Decade-Old Geoengineering Idea
Do You Trust Governor Sarah Palin With The Fate Of The Polar Bears? (An Annotated 2009 Retrospective)
every single day, the universe is actively trying its best to extinguish us unless we actively try to stop it
The Intersection of Science and Spirituality: Fuzzball Insights
Ultimately, the science of the string and the fuzzball provides a framework for the intuition that many of us carry: that we are not isolated islands, but inextricably linked to a larger, eternal, and constantly self-renewing cosmic process.