An Euro-American lover-of-money — moneyphile — named Peter Thiel wants to live forever! While his greed for money and his desire to live forever are his personal choices — what amazes me...
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Books in Brief — Edgar Allan Poe: Eureka
Read Duration: 2–3 days (It is short but requires attention.) Author: Edgar Allan Poe Year: 1848 Genre: Non-Fiction Sub-Genre: Philosophy. Cosmology. Spirituality. Opening sentence: To the few who love me and whom I...
Continue reading...A Thought Experiment: Of An Alternative Existence
Let us imagine a habitable planet with – life, far far away! The planet is revolving around its own star. Its day-night period same as Earth’s....
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At least 900 species have gone extinct in the last five centuries and More than 35,000 species have been evaluated to be threatened with extinction today. This is the...
Continue reading...The Philosophy of Cataclysm
I grew up with Hindu/Buddhist philosophies and as you may know — there’s a gargantuan presence of the inevitability of death in these systems of thinking. Take the...
Continue reading...Will it all End? — It hardly matters!
Sensing what humans were doing to her forest, a tiger at a national park started getting paranoid. ‘They will destroy this all one day. I will...
Continue reading...Are we Humans civilized yet?
Arthur C. Clarke’s famous short-story The Sentinel (the seed from which 2001: A Space Odyssey sprang) is about a monolith discovered ‘high on the ridge of...
Continue reading...A short history of Cities- Part 1
Jericho, Uruk and Ur A city can be defined as a geographical area which is compact, immensely interconnected and is urbanized. That is, it is modernly...
Continue reading...Is Kathmandu heating up?
I have spent my entire life in Kathmandu. I more or less know how the seasons work here. But, this October has been unlike any other....
Continue reading...Biodiversity and Loss
Biodiversity is a way of looking at biological varieties of any given space-time. If I have 20 species of flowers in my garden then it means...
Continue reading...Climate Change and Nepal
For the period of 1999-2018, Nepal was among the top 10 most vulnerable nations from Climate Change according to the Climate Risk Index (CRI). 2019...
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