Results for “Gems and Gold Corner”

and Glazounov Pas de Deux to the composer’s

unfettered--it' s also a fight between comedians and

but SubsetLink is used because it’s shorter and more intuitive.

and perhaps far beyond it. We need to think globally

world population was about 3 billion. It now exceeds 7 billion. The growth’s been mainly in Asia and Africa

San Paulo and Delhi will have populations above 30 million. To prevent megacities becoming turbulent dystopias will surely be a major challenge to governance.

for instance applies commercial-style discounting -- and in effect writes off what happens beyond 2050. So

and calculated that it would hit the Earth in 2080

and won't gain much resonance by advocating unwelcome lifestyle changes now – when the benefits accrue mainly to distant parts of the world

and perhaps damp down undue optimism about a technical 'quick fix' of our climate.

not the direction of travel. The cautious amongst us envisage timescales of centuries rather than decades before humans are overtaken or transcended by electronic intelligence – far transcending the chemical and metabolic limits of ‘wet’ organic brains. These entities will then p...

we could be of special cosmic significance for jump-starting the transition to inorganic (and potentially immortal) entities

we may only ever recognise a small and atypical fraction of it. Moreover

and this sounds like a wonderful opportunity.”

the emptiness and its mystery. Computations of the entropy of systems