The Way of Water

This text was written in January 2023. Each morning for a month, the author visited the American Museum of Natural History. Each evening, he watched James Cameron’s The Way of Water. This text is the output of that period’s work.

Its primary stylistic debt is to Jacob Clifton of Television Without Pity. Its chief intellectual debts include the microbiologist Lynn Margulis, the economist Thomas Schelling, the journalists Robert Wright and Charles Mann, and members of The Inexact Sciences.

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