evermore, and other beautiful things

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This is an excerpt from today’s issue of my weekly newsletter. If all evidence of civilization on Earth was destroyed, and humans had to re-build society from the ground up, what would be different? Feynman reckons that pivotal scientific moments, like the discovery of the atom, will still happen in the same way. Perhaps mathematics will be...