Peter Merrens
Author shaped by Armenian-Jewish roots and a life across Sri Lanka, India, Canada, Singapore and the UK. Writes fiction, essays and science from rural Kent, teaches leadership, and explores ideas with relentless curiosity.
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Did dogs advance civilisation?
Perhaps we only shaped dogs after they had shaped us. After all, they have been our neighbours for 300,000 years.
Stop Doom-Scrolling. Watch Tarkovsky
If ever there was a time when we needed an alternative to instant gratification and serotonin overload, it is now.
Lord, protect us from the benevolent
Rapid action feels like virtue. Restraint rarely does. Yet such action comes with unintended consequences.
Short Story: The Craft
A tale of one of the oldest crafts in the world. Hint: it's not leatherwork.
Is there Time?
Many physicists agree that time is not real yet why is it so hard to let go of time as a sensation?
Proximal God: Excursion - Behind the novel
Humanity faces extinction, a sentient AI offers survival through artificial evolution, but the cost is lethal.