Category: Living
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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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The "meaning of life". Doing something "important"...
In this stop-motion animation film about the real meaning of life, a 6-year-old girl narrates and asks, "How sad would it be to get to the end of your life and realize you never truly lived?" After citing scientific research finding the main regrets of elderly people to be the things they didn't do rather…
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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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Doing nothing. Being electrocuted. We prefer the latter!
People, and especially men, hate being alone with their thoughts so much that they’d rather be in pain. In a study published in Science Thursday on the ability of people to let their minds “wander” — that is, for them to sit and do nothing but think — researchers found that about a quarter of…
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