Category: Death
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The mall. Death. Gone.
A mall gone. Abandoned. A shadow of its glorious past (1, 2) What was full is now empty. And yet, something still seems alive. Where people were, now no one is. And yet, something still fills the room. Where noise and music filled the space, now silence fills the room. And yet, it seems to say…
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Death penalty – We are all inmates…
Terminally ill people who want to die can take drugs to end their lives peacefully. Ailing pets are put down humanely every day. Clearly, the technology exists to bring about a quick and painless death. Why, then, do executions by lethal injection sometimes become troubling spectacles? The death in Oklahomaof Clayton D. Lockett, amid struggling…
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Adapting, accepting, living, dying…
The World Health Organization (WHO) presented its first-ever global attempt to assess the spread of drug resistance today—and the results are sobering. Antimicrobial resistance “threatens the achievements of modern medicine,” warns the study, which shows that high rates of resistance occur in most parts of the world. “Without urgent, coordinated action by many stakeholders, the…
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Resurrected moss, biology, death, strange aeons…
Researchers have demonstrated that, after over 1,500 years frozen in Antarctic ice, moss can come back to life and continue to grow. For the first time, this vital part of the ecosystem in both polar regions has been shown to have the ability to survive century to millennial scale ice ages. (1, 2) According to…
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Kleiber’s Law, evolution, geometries of species…
Scientists believe to have found the reason behind the validity of Kleiber’s Law in how animals and plants develop their shapes relatively to their size and mass. (1) Some day we will know everything related to why we are as we are. Some day we will know everything related to our body, our shape, our…
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