Bryckosphere

Dear Media, When you talk about Climate Destabilization (Destruction), stop talking about temperature. Stop talking about how it was the “hottest year on record” this year, because it isn’t the least bit helpful in either driving the issue home or helping anyone better understand the issue. It doesn’t matter how often you remind us of the issue, if people don’t understand it, the weight and the impact of it, those reminders are useless. You are smart enough to know what the cause of and consequently the solution to the problem is; Carbon Emissions. You’re smart enough to know the Carbon Emissions drives Global Heating and communicate how Global Heating is bad. But you can’t seem to communicate the specific details of what Global Heating drives, even though that is the part that matters, the part that is directly going to impact people. I interned at the Luc Hoffman Institute in Geneva for 2 weeks over the 2019 Summer, an organization that acts effectively as a startup...

I recently watched Vox's video on the Loneliness epidemic as part of their series "Glad you asked" , which investigates some truly interesting topics in a hybrid news-report/video-essay like style which I frankly find more digestible then many other mainstream formats. And it's opened up some interesting follow-up questions in my sphere of mind. It's question into the root cause of loneliness; one of the statistics that surprised me was an increase in the term "loneliness" around when modern cities began forming, and the video explains the reasoning behind why city life can be lonely fairly well. But it's interesting to think about how a city, where a lot of social events and nightlife can happen, isn't actually structured to combat loneliness, that here, the risk is not of having enough humans around you to satisfy Dunbar's number, but rather having too many options, in a weird form of consumer's dilemma around choices of friendship. P...