Source: aeon.co

Yacob and Amo: Africa’s precursors to Locke, Hume and Kant.
How climate change and disease helped the fall of Rome.
The minds of plants.
In cold blood – Therapeutic hypothermia could save lives, propel interstellar travel and expand consciousness.
Soon the particular solitude of the lighthouse keeper will be lost to automation.
Even if genes affect intelligence, we can’t engineer cleverness.
Our enemies are human: that’s why we want to kill them.