We owe our existence to little photosynthetic bacteria — but there is much more to this story, as life can only mutate and adapt when the planet offers the right conditions.
November 15, 2017
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Marcelo imagines a conversation between a geneticist, a Buddhist, a physicist, a psychologist, and a theologian about life and the future of humanity.
April 5, 2017
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The prospects can be either beatific or terrifying depending where you come from but, whatever your choice, transhumanism is here to stay.
March 29, 2017
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Even if chiral molecules are part of the ingredients of new planets, the choice of chirality could vary randomly from star-forming region to star-forming region.
July 5, 2016
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Life, for all its remarkable diversity, displays also a remarkable unity; it would be amazing if life as we don't know it is, after all, life as we do know it,
May 24, 2016
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Given that there are trillions of worlds in our galaxy alone, circling hundreds of billions of stars, it would be a true statistical fluke if Earth were the only harbor for life.
February 9, 2016
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The upcoming documentary Unity is a wake-up call to humanity on the moral duty to respect the diversity of life, which is born from the same seed.
August 11, 2015
New human possibilities materialized with the arrival of the the Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries. Marcelo says its time to pick up the banner and move forward again.
July 30, 2014
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We are all connected chemically to the universe; life, if it exists out there, will share the same roots as life here. Yet, we must be the only humans in the cosmos.
May 14, 2014
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What was there before the universe began? It's not a question we can really answer with the science we have at hand.
December 29, 2013
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