Archive - Staying Alive (Path findings)

Matter on my mind

My review of 'How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future' by Vaclav Smil, entered for the ACX Book Review 2023…

Jun 26, 2023 •

June 2022

Awakening the Ancestors

A sci-fan-fic pastoral pastiche in 7 movements, submitted for EA Post Prize #1: The World in 2072 (it didn't win).

Jun 4, 2022 •

May 2022

Podcast version - Young blood, old monsters and rejuvenated rodents

Amateur reading of my post from 20 May 2022. Warning: includes graphic descriptions of blood, vivisection, intergenerational exploitation and stumbling…

May 20, 2022 •

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Young blood, old monsters and rejuvenated rodents

Warning: this post contains graphic descriptions of blood, vivisection and intergenerational exploitation, as well as an interview with a lovely real…

May 18, 2022 •

April 2022

Rabbits, robots and resurrection

Riffing with Karnofsky on the value of present and future lives, to celebrate the 50th anniversaries of 'Watership Down', 'Limits to Growth' and the…

Apr 20, 2022 •

Live long and prosper: lessons from super-centenarians

The oldest person alive at time of writing is Kane Tanaka, who celebrated her 119th birthday on 2 January 2022.

Apr 3, 2022 •

March 2022

Apocalypse now, later or maybe never?

In 1884, the Russian romantic revivalist Victor Vasnetsov was commissioned by St.

Mar 21, 2022 •

This is Staying Alive (Path findings), a newsletter about Steps to being more human.

Mar 15, 2022 •

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