Category: Death
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Staying alive for ever. Being dead long ago. Dying. Being born.
Can we stay young forever, or even recapture lost youth? Research from the laboratory of Professor Julian Chen in the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University recently uncovered a crucial step in the telomerase enzyme catalytic cycle. This catalytic cycle determines the ability of the human telomerase enzyme to synthesize DNA "repeats" (specific…
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Art. Caves. Sound. From silence…
When and where did humans develop language? To find out, look deep inside caves, suggests an MIT professor. More precisely, some specific features of cave art may provide clues about how our symbolic, multifaceted language capabilities evolved, according to a paper co-authored by MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa. A key to this idea is that cave…
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Memento Mori. [Remember to Die] (Poem)
Don't worry. Everything is fine. For even when everything is not all right. At the end... Everything will be all right... [Photos from Hietaniemen cemetery in Helsinki, Finland]
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Destruction and Death. Creation and Life.
On a ho-hum day some 12,800 years ago, the Earth had emerged from another ice age. Things were warming up, and the glaciers had retreated. But at some point, out of nowhere, the sky was lit with fireballs. This was followed by shock waves. Fires rushed across the landscape, and dust clogged the sky, cutting…
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Falling leaf... ['Life & Death' poem collection]
'Oh, leaf!', you cry... Once proud and alive. Beautiful. Now dead. Falling down... Soon it will be no more. Cry not for that leaf. Falling down... In the midst of nothingness, Whispering... 'Oh man! Do you see me cry?'
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