• The Moon: Humanity’s Oldest Clock and Newest Frontier

    Often, it is easy to ignore the world around us and take Earth for granted. Given this reality, for a normal person, what’s out there in space can be so fascinating and at the same time so disproportionate in terms of dimension that it takes one of the following categories: irrelevant against our daily and global struggles, or evocative, making us imagine and almost feel everything we could achieve and become.  Our only natural satellite, the Moon, probably falls in all of the above. In the same way that the first missions to put humans on its surface sparked curiosity…

  • What a Fruit Parody Taught Me About the Future of Culture

    Fast food didn’t make restaurants obsolete Disclaimer: This quote isn’t mine, I first heard it here. However, it made me want to keep pulling the thread. The context of the discussion has nothing to do with restaurants and fast food, but with fruits. I particular AI generated fruit in a Love Island parody. I’ve watched all episodes availabe to today, and I can’t say it was worth every minute, but in how many ways don’t we spend too many hours dumb scrolling? From the series of videos (in Tik Tok format) one can extract the essence of the real show…