Ryan North

The mosquito is one of the few animals that, if removed, would have no lasting negative impact on the world: the activities they perform in the ecosystem (feeding birds, some light pollination) are already performed by other insects. The only legacy would be fewer human deaths from malaria.

It wasn’t until 1816 CE that we realized proteins were important, and then only by noticing that if we forced dogs to eat nothing but sugar they still died of starvation.
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We Are Become Farmers

Table 1: A table any human should be embarrassed to even be in the same room with

assuming you are multilingual or feeling ambitious) choosing a language that is not English. That prevents you from accidentally teaching others how to read this text, which may be something worth considering,

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mathematics is actually built on a foundation of things we can’t prove but assume are true. We call them “axioms,” and we think they’re safe assumptions, but at the end of the day, they remain beliefs we cannot prove. Axioms include ideas like “2 + 1 gives the same result as 1 + 2” and “if
a equals b, and if b equals c, then a equals c.”

by this logic, 1/0 should equal negative infinity.

But a number can’t be equal to infinity and negative infinity at the same time.

Farming also formalizes the idea of an economy in your civilization, since now farmers can regularly trade their food with others.

Farming also formalizes the idea of an economy in your civilization, since now farmers can regularly trade their food with others. With an economy comes specialization: instead of each human having to do everything necessary to survive (or splitting it among a family group), now someone who’s particularly talented at farming can focus all their efforts on that. A hunter and gatherer