ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Every Egyptologist doing archaeological excavations in Egypt has repeatedly heard the surprised questions from uninitiated people: “You’re working in Egypt?! But is there anything left to do there? Haven’t they excavated everything by now?” No, of course they haven’t. It seems that Egypt will never cease to surprise us and will always offer more new …
Can a planet have a mind of its own? Science continues to explore the Gaia Hypothesis, which speculates that our planet is a self-regulating organism which may hold a collective planetary intelligence, which humanity is part of and affects. If this is true, what will scientific observation show us about other civilizations on extraterrestrial planets? …
In 2018 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai had something to say: “AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire.” Pichai’s comment was met with a healthy dose of skepticism. But nearly five years later, …
For the second time in five years, scientists are warning about declining human sperm counts. (I wrote about this issue in “Declining sperm counts: Nature’s answer to overpopulation?” early last year.) Read more
Sperm counts worldwide have halved over the past five decades, and the pace of the decline has more than doubled since the turn of the century, new research shows. The international team behind it says the data is alarming and points to a fertility crisis threatening the survival of humanity. Their meta-analysis looked at 223 …
As we mark the end of the ninth month of the largest, most brutal war in Europe since 1945, the worst thing we can do for peace on our continent is to push for peace negotiations with Vladimir Putin. The best thing we can do for peace is to increase our military, economic and humanitarian support …
Some of the best-known corporations in the US, including AT&T, Boeing, Delta Air Lines and the Home Depot, collectively poured more than $8m into supporting election deniers running for US House and Senate seats in this month’s midterm elections. Read more
Becoming a world record holder in pull-ups surely requires dedication and resolve. One might not expect a person who has accomplished that feat to be averse to a life focused on goals and achievement, but one might not expect the pull-up record holder to be a philosopher, either. Read more
Iwant to start with a proposition: if Earth had never come alive, it would be a profoundly different world. Conversely: the planet of today has, to a remarkable extent, been made what it is by the activities of lifeforms. Over the course of the planet’s long history, a history that extends back more than 4.5 billion years, …
Philosophers, please take a moment to write down, in a comment on this post, one question you are currently working on. (Yes, just one.) Read more