Category: Dasein Philosophy
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Solid fluids. Beginning of the Universe. Unity of the cosmos.
A solid material that conducts electricity perfectly at certain temperatures may also qualify as an almost perfectly flowing liquid. If the result is confirmed, the superconducting material would become the first nearly perfect fluid that isn't among the hottest or coldest substances in the universe. The result also suggests a new way of deciphering a…
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Intestines in mice: The environment as Existence's matrix for Dasein...
Slimy chunks of human gut can now grow up and get to work inside of mice. Transplanted into rodents, tiny balls of tissue balloon into thumb-sized nuggets that look and act like real human intestines, researchers report October 19 in Nature Medicine. The work is the first time scientists have been able to transform adult…
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Killed by lightning. Ancient tribes. Being.
Eleven Wiwa Indians killed by lightning during a tribal ceremony in Colombia's Sierra Nevada mountains will be left unburied where they died according to their traditions, an official said Sunday. The community of about 60 families will abandon their remote village in the wake of Monday's tragedy, but it was not yet clear where they…
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Thoreau. Naming things. Lost memories. Important things.
A vast pyramid of talus and scree in the Sierra Nevada range, it sits between the aptly named Wonder Lakes Basin and Mount Emerson, a namesake of the great 19th-century author Ralph Waldo Emerson. It might seem only fitting that it should bear the name of Emerson’s close friend and fellow transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.…
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Staying alive. Afraid to die. Accepting death. The story of our life...
Life and death... A drug used to treat advanced breast cancer has had what appears to be unprecedented success in prolonging lives in a clinical trial, researchers reported. Patients who received the drug — Perjeta, from the Swiss drug maker Roche — had a median survival time nearly 16 months longer than those in the…
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