Dailies Life Lessons from Terraforming Mars In the board game Terraforming Mars each player represents a corporation tasked with making Mars habitable for humanity. You make Mars habitable by raising three global parameters to the required level: oxygen to 14%, temperature to 8° C, and the number of oceans to
shower-thought Jams Are Fruit Batteries Here's a silly thought: Solar panels convert sunlight into electricity. But sunlight isn't always available -- when the sun sets electricity from your solar panels runs dry. You need batteries to store solar energy when the sun is shining, and
shower-thought The Anthropic Principle Why is the Earth so perfect for life? Or even more broadly, why is the Universe so perfect for life? Well, if it wasn't, there would be no life in it, and therefore no one to ask the question 'Why is