Category: Life
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A deaf kid. A loving mother. A smile.
A deaf boy listening to his mother for the first time with the help of a hearing aid… (1) Is that lifeless matter organized into something that gives us the impression of consciousness? Can we really degrade pure happiness and love into lifeless particles? How much more will we let our beliefs guide our thoughts?…
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Gut, viruses, life itself…
Odds are, there’s a virus living inside your gut that has gone undetected by scientists for decades. A new study has found that more than half the world’s population is host to a newly described virus, named crAssphage, which infects one of the most common gut bacterial species, Bacteroides. This bacterium thought to be connected…
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Whisky, cigarettes, long living !?
Whisky and 15 cigarettes a day is the secret of my good health’ says Dorothy as she celebrates her 100th birthday (with a glass of her favorite tipple, of course). (1) Surely this went to the news. But we are all too afraid to acknowledge what conclusion might be drawn from this case. Is it…
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Hoopa, lost artifacts, modern nihilism…
As High Country News describes it, the Hoopa Tribal Museum is more like a borrowing library than a display museum. If you’re a member of the northern California tribe, you can check out the museum’s artifacts to use in ceremonies. Pretty cool. There’s one strange catch, however. Some of the artifacts are poisoned, literally. Museum…
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GPS, position, footsteps…
Quantum positioning system will soon step in when GPS fails. IN 2016 a British submarine will slip its moorings and set sail under the guidance of the quantum world. The navigation system it will be testing should record the vessel’s position with 1000 times more accuracy than anything before. (1) Try to trace your…
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