Category: Life
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Back home…
Volatile organic compounds identified that can be used for olfactory navigation by homing pigeons. (1) Open your eyes. Touch the cosmos. Smell the trees. And you will be able to go back home. A home you would have never left in vain. If not for the senses that allowed you to navigate away from it…
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Memory. Μνήμη.
Gods do not die. Faith diesof the ungrateful mob of mortals.Gods are immortal. From our gazesilver clouds hide them.Oh holy Thessaly, they still love you;Their sould still remember you.In gods, as in us, memories blossom,the pulses of their first love.When with love the light of dawn kisses Thessaly with lovesap from the life of godspasses…
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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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The bar mystery…
The majority of spiral galaxies, like our home the Milky Way, host a large bar-like structure of stars in their canter. Knowledge of the true bar size and rotational speed is crucial for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. However our galaxy's bar size and rotational speed have been strongly contested in the last 5…
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