Darwin’s Forgotten Theories

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If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.

The cofounders of think tank RethinkX are convinced that humanity is undergoing civilizational phase change.

“We are racing towards a new era in which we outsource cognitive abilities that are central to our identity as thinking beings,” writes computer scientist Louis Rosenberg.

If the Universe is 13.8 billion years old today, but different ages the farther we look back, what does it mean for a star to be the first?