Category: Existence
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Bacteria, Alchemy, humans…
Infectious bacteria have for the first time been caught performing “biological alchemy” to transform parts of a host body into those more suited to their purposes, by a team in Edinburgh. The study, in the journal Cell, showed leprosy-causing bacteria turning nerves into stem cells and muscle. [1] Change is part of the world. And those…
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Light, Dark, Eyes…
A study, published in the journal Nature, showed that mice spending pregnancy in complete darkness had babies with altered eye development. It indicated tiny quantities of light were needed to control blood vessel growth in the eye. The researchers showed that the retina development requires light that is going through the body during pregnancy. From darkness we come,…
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Fake hand, real self, the Cosmos…
A former pub landlord from West Yorkshire has become the first person in the UK to have a hand transplant. [1] At some day he will feel this hand as his “own”. How can this be? What determines what is “ours”? It may sound radical, but we are the ones who formulate the limits of…
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Reality, QM, Bell…
Quantum mechanics (QM) experiments (related to Bell’s inequality) have shown that reality does NOT exist when we are not observing it. [1] This is amazing. Although at this point some objections still arise concerning this conclusion, it is really important to know that science has began thinking about concepts that have for a long time…
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NORAD, Santa Clauss, “reality”…
Once more, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is tracking down the magic flight of Santa Clauss around the globe. The saint has currently delivered more than 1,793,000,000 gifts as he is heading towards Dhaka, Bangladesh (see here for the flight tracking in real time). [1] Weird how “not real” things have so much “evidence” to back…
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