THE CARBON PARADOX: Why Carbon Explains Everything
"To truly know ourselves, we need to look up and down through time, out into the galaxy, and inside our atoms."

"To truly know ourselves, we need to look up and down through time, out into the galaxy, and inside our atoms."

It began in 2017...
... turned into a hashtag ...


... then 10,000 pages of research.
How did we get here? Not just evolution. Civilisation. What holds it together? How long can it last? Why here? Why nowhere else? The answers to all our biggest questions are written in carbon.
The #CarbonParadox touches every branch of science: natural, social, and applied. From history to anatomy, it connects shooting stars, cities, speech, and cereal.
A paradox is just an unexpected break from norms, like the edge of a system where the rules change. So, sometimes, it takes a paradox for everything to make sense.
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