A Neanderthal Reviews "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari
As told to and translated by Hank Felsman In an undisclosed controlled environment in Alexandria, VA, just a 25-minute bicycle ride from...
Hank Felsman
Jul 19, 2019
Climate Change Therapy - Ep. 7 - Z Nalywayko and A Cooke
Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we practice the dark, difficult art of talking about climate change in social...
BlockRadius Staff
Feb 26, 2019
Cemeteries, Cities, and Urban Evolution
"Mid the uneasy wanderings of paleolithic man, the dead were the first to have a permanent dwelling: a cavern, a mound marked by a cairn,...
Hank Felsman
Jan 10, 2019
COUNTERPOINT: People are Cities
Last week, my esteemed colleague Z laid out the argument that cities are people. Read it here. Cities are people; so too is a city, in...
Hank Felsman
Aug 1, 2017
Cities Are People
Cities are people. You disagree? Good. Cities are people. Just people. Cities are not metaphorically people, with roads as arteries and...
Z Nalywayko
Jul 27, 2017
Methuselah's Lifespan, Measured In Moons
There are many possible explanations for why Biblical time contradicts time as we know it today. One is that years were calculated...
Hank Felsman
Jul 4, 2017
How Humans Discovered Cooking Before Harnessing Fire
When the ancestors of modern humans left the Serengeti 2-3 million years ago, they mostly went east, first into present-day Tanzania and...
Hank Felsman
Jun 27, 2017