Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman Man did not evolve to exercise, but man was also not built to sit on a chair in an air-conditioned room for 16 hours a day. Daniel Lieberman begins the book by diving into why we hate exercising and why it is normal to hate straining yourself unnecessarily. Then he…

When you come up with a new idea, there are many things that can contribute to your failure but there are certain things that are baked into our thinking that can cause us to fail. Curse of Knowledge Many times when you come up with a new idea, you will…

Green capitalism will save the world. The transition to green will make our economies cleaner and more eco-friendly. This book argues that nothing could be further from the truth. The only thing the green economy will save is capitalism and the extractive ways that we have become accustomed to. …

Nature is doing physics. For the last 100 years, industrialisation has given us a slow-moving train wreck we call Climate Change today. It was not always branded as such always. The scientists understood that the increasing carbon-di-oxide content in the atmosphere is causing the atmosphere to warm up. …

It takes a special kind of person to be willing to spare their resources for someone else. Especially if that someone else is a person that we do not know. Photo by Allef Vinicius on Unsplash We would be willing to support someone we know in a heartbeat. In some…

In February this year, I had written a piece on the Energy transition towards Hydrogen that is taking place. Specifically Blue Hydrogen. Blue hydrogen is sourced from fossil fuels. However, the CO2 is captured and stored underground (carbon sequestration). Companies are also trying to utilise the captured carbon called carbon…

The Joke of the week is: Qatar is a very lucky country. It is the quickest USA has left a middle eastern country. It is all downhill from here… When you hit another person, it is physical violence. When you tell someone things that seem to conflict with the truth…

Switzerland made a bold statement regarding climate change. They are going to be carbon neutral by 2030. They are certain of it. Photo by Tim Trad on Unsplash Part of the emission problem is because western nations will just not sacrifice the degree of convenience that they have become used…

The recurring lockdowns in China have thrown demand-supply out of kilter. To add to this, the sanctions on Russia have hurt fuel supply making supply chains expensive. This produced a whole host of unintended outcomes. DXY is an Index that tracks the US dollar against a basket of currencies across…