Category: Dasein Philosophy
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Perception. Being inside. Being outside. A comet's tail...
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has sent back some amazing photos as it approaches comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet and prepares to land on its surface. But we have a question: Where's the tail? Gerhard Schwehm, former manager of the Rosetta mission, tells Popular Science that the tail as we see it from Earth looks very…
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Life. Referendums. Unfair. Fair.
Scottish referendum. (1) A decision defining the future of a nation, depending on one vote. Someone sleeping late, someone being sick, someone having a fight with his wife. Important things, depending on unimportant ones. This is life. We believe this is unfair. But what if not thing is "important"? What is nothing is "unimportant"? What if…
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Shakespeare. Chinese. The essence.
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to translate the entire works of the Bard into Mandarin as part of efforts to foster greater cultural ties with China. Culture Secretary, Sajid Javid, announced funding of £1.5m to pay for the project, which will also cover the translation of up to 14 important Chinese plays into English. (1, 2)…
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Stable universe. Unstable thoughts...
According to legend, when Damocles declared that his king, Dionysius, must have a posh and easy life, Dionysius offered to trade places with Damocles. There was only one catch. Dionysius decreed that a sword be suspended over the throne by a single horse hair, so that Damocles would always know the peril of being king.…
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The beginning of life. The beginning?
Geologists in Ireland have rewritten the evolutionary history books by finding that oxygen-producing life forms were present on Earth some 3 billion years ago -- a full 60 million years earlier than previously thought. These life forms were responsible for adding oxygen to our atmosphere, which laid the foundations for more complex life to evolve…
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