Category: Death
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Parents. Children. Death.
New work reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter. These findings refine our understanding of the forces that determined our Solar System's unusual architecture, including the ejection of an additional planet between Saturn and Uranus, ensuring that only small, rocky planets, like Earth, formed inward of Jupiter. (1) Dear father. Where were you…
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Soon you will be dead!
Life is finite. There is only a small number of summers that you will enjoy. Sitting alone at night, thinking of being alive. There is only a small number of winters that you will experience. Sitting with friends laughing. Even tomorrow you may not be here. Just sleeping is a great adventure that we don't…
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Continuous. Discrete.
Two major theories have fueled a now 1,500 year-long debate started by Saint Augustine: Is consciousness continuous, where we are conscious at each single point in time, or is it discrete, where we are conscious only at certain moments of time? Psychophysicists answer this centuries-old question with a new model, one that combines both continuous…
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Fitness. Change. Stupid mirrors…
There's a paradox within the theory of evolution: The life forms that exist today are here because they were able to change when past environments disappeared. Yet, organisms evolve to fit into specific environmental niches. How do these mechanisms co-exist? A research tried to answer that question. There are two general possible solutions. First, the…
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Coping with the grief of death 2
Have been trying to cope with the grief of death. By thinking of things. By not thinking of things. Avoiding my self. But now I understand. That the only reason that I grief. Is that I have not sat alone. To feel. To cry. To grief. Until the cosmos understands. That there is no need…
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