Category: Dasein Philosophy
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“Seeing” blue light…
Plants can perceive and react to light across a wide spectrum. New research shows how plants can respond to blue light in particular by revealing the structure of cryptochrome-2, the molecule that reacts to blue light. (1) "Seeing" blue light. How mundane. Our whole perception enslaved into mere interactions. Our whole thought dictated by things…
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New genes! New inventions! So?! (Me!)
Thanks to the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii, an animal whose genes have evolved very slowly, scientists have shown that while haemoglobin appeared independently in several species, it actually descends from a single gene transmitted to all by their last common ancestor. (1) Things discovered. Only because they would anyway be. By someone else. In the…
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A distant aroma…
Asian spices such as turmeric and fruits like the banana had already reached the Mediterranean more than 3000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. A team of researchers has shown that even in the Bronze Age, long-distance trade in food was already connecting distant societies. (1) Smell that forest. Close your eyes. There is…
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Pain. Can you laugh without it?
When two painful stimuli act on us at the same time, we perceive one of them as less painful. This phenomenon is part of the body's own pain control system. A dysfunction of this inhibition is associated with chronic pain disorders. (1) Pain guides us through life. Only to get to the final moments of…
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Meaningful death… (?)
People may cheer the demise of evil villains in fiction, but the deaths we most remember are the meaningful and sad endings of the characters we loved, research suggests. In a new study, researchers found that when people were asked to recall the death of a fictional character, they were more likely to mention deaths…
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