Author: artistinerokeitsi
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The Wild Heart of Assam: A Secret Hidden in Plain Sight
In 1823, a Scottish adventurer named Robert Bruce was trading in Assam when a local nobleman directed him to a Singpho tribal chief, and to a wild tea plant the tribe had been brewing, smoking, and eating for generations. The British authorities dismissed it as too coarse for civilized tastes. It took an industrial spy,…
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The Tool Doesn’t Make the Carpenter
A mediocre person with a great tool still gets a mediocre result. If even that. AI doesn’t replace skill, judgment, or taste. It just makes all three more visible.
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The Breath You’re Taking Is a Biological Waste Product
The oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere exists almost entirely because of life — and without life continuously replenishing it, it would eventually vanish. Before cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis roughly 2.4 billion years ago, there was almost no free oxygen at all. What we breathe today is, chemically speaking, biological waste. It also nearly ended life on Earth…
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Not Technically a Vitamin
Vitamin D is not a vitamin. It never was. It is a prohormone, the name is a historical accident, and the science around it is considerably more interesting and considerably less miraculous than the wellness internet would have you believe.
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Philosophers Have Wondered What Consciousness Is for Centuries. We Just Built Something That Might Have It.
Philosophers have been asking what consciousness is since at least Descartes. Neuroscientists have been mapping the brain for over a century. Nobody has cracked it. And now we have built systems that might, possibly, be conscious, and we still have no reliable way to check.
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Chest Pain. Highly Recommended.
The world produces music like hamburgers, uniform, predictable, optimised to please as many people as possible. Then comes a Canadian duo playing between the notes in a time signature you can’t count.