Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/life-as-a-human-born-on-another-planet Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch You wake up and open your eyes. The sun always hangs in the west, on the horizon, exactly where it is before you sleep and throughout the rest of the day that follows. There’s always been not one, not two, but six crescent moons […]
Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/anti-natalism Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch The philosophy of anti-natalism is that thought that human procreation is unethical. The belief that any action with suffering as its byproduct should not be encouraged, no matter how much pleasure will follow as well. Everyone suffers from being human, but no one suffers […]
Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/should-we-seek-immortality Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch Although we’ve been socialized to accept death as an inevitability, and live our lives knowing that its looming shadow will one day catch up with us, many of us might never really come to terms with it. Throughout our evolution, we’ve come up with […]
Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/agriculture-humanity-s-best-worst-invention Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch For nearly 300,000 years, we went where we pleased, whenever we pleased. We explored a world mostly untouched by human hands. We ate a wide variety of rich, healthy, fresh-picked food. And without work to tie us down, we spent almost all our time […]
Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/if-humans-suddenly-disappeared Shop: https://bit.ly/ApertureMerch Throughout the first day of our absence, all of the fossil fuel power plants around the world would shut down in rapid succession without humans around to re-fuel them with coal or oil. These shutdowns would lead to electrical blackouts across the globe, causing […]
Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/are-humans-inherently-good-or-evil Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch Psychology and neuroscience both tell us that morality developed out of an evolutionary need. People that distinguish good from bad and do so predictably are much better at banding together and making social companions than those who are not. Are humans inherently evil? Stay […]
