When everything is possible, nothing useful can happen. That includes your life choices. Paradoxically, it is limits and constraints that make anything at all possible. Starting from the quantum soup, it takes three or four levels of constraints of for matter to become organized enough for life to become possible…

*Real democracy, not what the US or the UK have. Many forms of government have been attempted over the course of millennia of human civilization. I hate to be a downer, but every single form of government attempted so far has already failed at least once in the past. This is why we speak of “ancient Greece”, “old Rome”, “ancient…

Feeding it could fix our problems for free. — To continue our series on future technologies that people are not talking enough about, let’s take a look at an unexpected carbon capture solution — a way that avoids many of the problems that plagues the traditional methods, while using things that we already have too many of. Surprisingly, even…

On February 24th, Putin and his “Greater Russia” nationalists have made their own worst nightmares come true, destroyed any hope for Russia’s near future, and put every Russian in the world in danger. First things first: if you want to help, please donate to one of the charities operating in Ukraine, for example the Ukrainian Red Cross. And now to the article. I come from a country that does not exist. My mother left what was the smoldering remains of the Soviet Union…

Who connects the dots? — You might know Leonardo Da Vinci as one of the greatest painters in the history of art, and one of the founders of the Renaissance. Or you might know him as a sculptor — or an architect, or an engineer, or an inventor. He was all of those things, but…

We all — crypto’s critics, as well as the supporters — have been debating the wrong things for decades: as long as people have a reasonable chance of a material gain from participating in something, they will do it, and none of the bigger financial, political, regulatory, technical or environmental…

While “the meaning of life” might be a tough personal or philosophical question, life itself also has a rather clear natural purpose. As humans, we are an extension of the biological life on this planet. In this article, I would like to elaborate what this purpose is, and what it…

Can we create a back-up civilization from the convenience of our earthly home? The upcoming SpaceX Starship launch wakes hopes that the mankind will be able to start settling Mars and the solar system within the coming decade or two. Some argue, the launch costs will be so low we should just build stations and cities with materials from Earth. After all, industrial…

If you wait long enough, everything seems to evolve into a crab. Biologists call this “carcinisation”. On the internet, sooner or later everything seems to evolve into a marketing platform. …