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Every time you breathe, you exhale some 25 sextillion (that’s 2.5 x 1022) molecules of oxygen—so many that with a day’s breathing you will in all likelihood inhale at least one molecule from the breaths of every person who has ever lived. And every person who lives from now until the sun burns out will from time to time breathe in a bit of you. At the atomic level, we are in a sense eternal.
The colonists found the city’s unfamiliar environment so unsettling that they demolished the dikes and dams that managed the lakes, draining the valley and establishing what would become one of the most populous cities in the world on the soft soil of a lakebed.
Deep Time Sickness | NOEMA
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Parking requirements helped trigger an extinction-level event for bite-sized, infill apartment buildings like row houses, brownstones, and triple-deckers; the production of buildings with two to four units fell more than 90 percent between 1971 and 2021.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
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