We’re the ape-like inhabitants of a tiny rock in a vast cosmos.
How much do we really know about it?
Humanity’s best minds have conceived ‘big ideas’ like atoms, gravity, and evolution.
This blog/notebook by Discover Earth shows you how they explain the universe and are connected.
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Big Ideas (Start here 👈)
Fabric of Reality
Habitable Worlds
Miscellaneous
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Notebook
This is our intellectual lab, where we develop ideas in public. If the 'Big Ideas' posts are finished paintings, these are the sketches.
The experience of being.
The building blocks of the universe around us, from strings to molecules.
The vast expanse in which we live.
The conditions and possibilities for life.
At its essence, life is a replicating machine.
Some species learned to form great, co-ordinated, and immensely complex colonies called multicellular organisms.
The vast, interconnected and incredibly complex networks in which species live, fight, and reproduce.
Maverick articles that don’t fit anywhere else.
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