Extinction used to feel final — like nature slammed a book shut and tossed the key into deep time. But humans? We’ve never been chill about endings. We bulldozed forests, rewired oceans, heated the planet, and erased species faster than any asteroid ever could. The scoreboard isn’t flattering: forests silenced, coral reefs bleached into bone-white…
What Ancient Artifacts Reveal About Aerodynamics When aviation history is discussed, most narratives begin in 1903 with the Wright brothers and their powered aircraft at Kitty Hawk. That moment is widely recognised by institutions like the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum as the beginning of modern flight. But the science of aerodynamics did not…
Artificial Intelligence and the Illusion of Thinking Artificial intelligence is often described as a thinking machine. Some people believe it understands us. Others fear it is quietly replacing human intelligence. Both assumptions miss what is actually happening. AI does not think, feel, or reason like humans do. Yet it behaves in ways that feel strangely…