This is what we know — We have transformed roughly 3/4 of Earth’s land that is not covered in ice. Our use of fossil fuels has acidified the oceans and dramatically raised temperatures. We have influenced entire species of flora and fauna, often causing extinction. Humans presently influence over 50% of the planet’s river systems […]
After the torch-light red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places –T.S. Eliot, from The Waste Land At the scale of a cell, drones are deployed. A swarm of ‘smart’ cells coursing through the bloodstream, engaging the “massive-addressability” of our physiology. Health status is monitored in […]
So, as the little prince described it to me, I have made a drawing of that planet. I do not much like to take the tone of a moralist. But the danger of the baobabs is so little understood, and such considerable risks would be run by anyone who might get lost on an asteroid, […]