Thursday, May 31, 2018

Desiccation of the Arabs




















Desiccation is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying. As climate change is proceeding all over the Arab world, with temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius and the humidity boiling off the earth and bodies, millions of Arabs will fall desiccated to the dry sand and hope for the rain to be revived. Cixian Liu describes the process in The Three Body Problem. As always, science fiction pretends to be talking about an imaginary, faraway planet, when in reality it is a metaphor of here and now. 

An incidental consequence of the organism’s evolutionary adaptation to dehydration, a common physiological stress in nature, is radiation resistance. Cixian Liu does not spell it out, but the Trisolarians are immune to radiation. Trisol-Arabs will also able to endure severe electromagnetic shock created by nuclear wars of the future.

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Overwhelmed by work


I am designing two projects in the HaArbaa street of Tel Aviv. Very old buildings, with large basements to function as antiair refuges. I have to complete them today and I feel tired, sick and stressed. People call me and I am so confused that don't remember who they are and what did I promise them. I have to slow down a bit.