Tag: fire
For Mankind, the Leap from Copper to Iron Was a Landmark Advance
The importance of metals, particularly iron, and the importance of the discovery of metallurgy can hardly be exaggerated.
Fire and Metals — Primal Discoveries, by Design
The ability to tame fire led to the invention of the art of cooking, and much more.
Humans Were Designed to Harness Fire
Of all the discoveries made on mankind’s long march to civilization, there was one primal discovery that made the realization of all else possible.
A Positive, Useful Discussion of Human Exceptionalism … On the Internet? Yes!
Not all humans can be concert pianists. Some humans can’t speak or get out of a wheelchair or remember their daughter’s name anymore. Here we enter into moral and ethical issues.
Cosmic Fine-Tuning Would Be Hard to Believe if It Weren’t True
The dual wave and particulate aspects of light, essential to our ability to see, and so much else, must all be just right to within insanely precise parameters.