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“Urbanization,” Our World in Data, ➝.
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“Why Are We Seeing More Sinkholes Across the Globe,” Insite, May 17, 2021, ➝.
Isobel Cockerell, “Silicon Valley’s sci-fi dreams of Colonizing Mars,” Coda Story, July 3, 2024, ➝.
Tad Friend, “Silicon Valley’s Quest to Live Forever,” The New Yorker, March 27, 2017, ➝.
Brian Handwerk, “An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens,” Smithsonian Magazine, February 2, 2021, ➝.
The emergence of written records around 4000 BCE in Uruk (in present day Iraq) is attested to in William W. Hallo and William Kelly Simpson’s The Ancient Near East: A History (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, 1971), 25.
For more on the Toba supervolcanic eruption see: Alan Machado, Discovering India Anew: Out of Africa to Its Early History (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2024), 1, 5–10; and Sam Kean, The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code (New York: Back Bay Books, 2012), 217–20.
For more on Chhinnamasta, see: Elizabeth Anne Benard, Chinnamasta: The Aweful Buddhist and Hindu Tantric Goddess (New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publications, 2000).
The manifestation of uncontainable forms (humans, non-humans, ex-humans and extra-humans) is explored against the context of the geological residues of the lost continent of Gondwanaland in our video, The Cavalcade (2025).
