Category: Dying
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Do you know when you will die?
AI developed to know when a person is going to die. A paper published in Nature suggests that feeding electronic health record data to a deep learning model could substantially improve the accuracy of projected outcomes. (1) We are all unaware when we are going to die. Is this lack of knowledge a blessing or…
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Not dying…
An international team of astronomers led by Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) has made a bizarre discovery; a star that refuses to stop shining. Supernovae, the explosions of stars, have been observed in the thousands and in all cases, they marked the death of a star. But in a study published last year in the journal…
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Tar. Adhesive irrelevancy.
Neanderthals seem stuck with unflattering reputations. The entire species of early human ancestors has long been reduced to a pejorative for describing someone who isn’t very bright, despite growing evidence of the sophistication of Homo neanderthalensis. And recent research suggests another overlooked mark of their ingenuity: they made the first glues in the form of…
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Menopause. Living. Dying.
Instead of having more children, a grandmother may pass on her genes more successfully by using her cognitive abilities to directly or indirectly aid her existing children and grandchildren. Such an advantage could have driven the evolution of menopause in humans, according to research published in PLOS Computational Biology. (1) We live and die. And…
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What if you died in the next minute?
Would that make what you do now more important? Would that make your words more meaningful? Would that make your love more true? Would that make your hate more honest? Would that make your joy more fulfilling? Would that make your misery more petty? Humans... Always judging things as if they will live for…
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