Category: Death
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Why do we die? Why shouldn’t we?
Life is destructive. Our environment and our internal functions all wear and tear at our body over time. Evolutionarily speaking, natural selection rewards those who can survive such hardship. So why don’t we live forever - why age at all? There have been numerous attempts to understand how and why we age - as recently…
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The Fountain
A movie not like any other movie. [1] So many comments and different views. [2, 3, 4, 5, 6] The mysterious dualism of Life and Knowledge. The search for Immortality. Ascending towards a light. Triangles. Rectangles. Spheres. Love. A connection. A separation. A dying star as the path to death and life. [7, 8, 9,…
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Mind over Body. Life over Death.
"I think, therefore I am" is perhaps the most familiar one-liner in western philosophy. Even if the stoners, philosophers and quantum mechanically-inclined skeptics who believe we’re living an illusion are right, few existential quips hit with such profound, approachable simplicity. The only catch is that in Descartes’ opinion, "we" – our thoughts, our personalities, our…
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Mammoth extinct. Resurrected. Life and death.
Scientists are one step closer to cloning a woolly mammoth, thanks to the results of a new autopsy conducted on a remarkably preserved specimen of the species discovered last year. The 40,000-year-old mammoth, nicknamed "Buttercup," was found in permafrost on the remote Siberian island of Maly Lyakhovsky. When scientists cut into the carcass, its fresh-looking…
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