Category: Human
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Computer viruses – A great tool! (which you already use)
Thousands of computers running Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system were unable to connect to the internet after installing an anti-virus update [1]. Users said they were also unable to access their internal company networks. It is not the first time an anti-virus update results in a disaster (see here). This reminds me of how much…
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What truly matters in life! (or why religion kicks ass!)
John and Ann Betar weren’t supposed to get married. Her father had arranged for her to wed another man, but she and John fled Bridgeport and eloped to New York. That was more than 80 years ago. The couple is still happily married, a fact that has led to their naming as the “longest married couple”…
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Weak, Strong, Seals, Sharks, Marlins
We seem to have specific opinions on who is strong and who is weak. Sharks for example are strong. They hunt other fish. And humans are strong. They hunt fish. Like Marlins. But things can be different. Shark can be eaten by… seals! [1] And sometimes the fish might sink the boat… [2] Next time…
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Living, breathing, fearing…
Not all fear is the same. A woman who laughs at horror movies, grabs dangerous snakes and calmly deals with knife-wielding men nonetheless surrenders to terror at a single puff of suffocating carbon dioxide. This woman, known as SM, has a disease that damaged her amygdala, a brain structure implicated in fear. But the new…
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Bacteria, new opinions, old “wrong” opinions…
Levi Strauss said that people have a tendency to believe that newer thoughts are always better and more correct than older ones. And this is totally but totally wrong. In the old days we thought that species were constant and unchangeable. Now we (think we) “know” they are not. Take for example bacteria or viruses,…
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