Earth and Space

Medium Post: Existence Itself Is Meaningful
The next time you are in a crisis, ask why your president should exist.

When The Greedy Shall Solely Inherit The World
What about you — if you are not greedy?

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...

March 19, 2022 by Adesh Acharya Earth and Space Life Mind Society and Humanity

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...

December 24, 2021 by Adesh Acharya Earth and Space History Life Mind Philosophy Science Society and Humanity 185

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....

December 23, 2021 by Adesh Acharya Earth and Space Life Mind Philosophy Science Society and Humanity Stories Technology World 141

The Human Paradox

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...

December 17, 2021 by Adesh Acharya Earth and Space Life Philosophy Society and Humanity World 1,518

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...

December 17, 2021 by Adesh Acharya Earth and Space Life Philosophy Society and Humanity World 124

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...

December 6, 2021 by Adesh Acharya Earth and Space Life Philosophy Society and Humanity World 148

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...

November 16, 2021 by Adesh Acharya Earth and Space Life Philosophy Society and Humanity Technology Uncategorized World 67

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...

October 19, 2021 by Adesh Acharya Earth and Space History Society and Humanity Technology World 76

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....

October 13, 2021 by Adesh Acharya Earth and Space World 198

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...

October 13, 2021 by Adesh Acharya Earth and Space Science World 187

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...

October 10, 2021 by Adesh Acharya Earth and Space Society and Humanity World 65