Category: Wrong perceptions
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Microbes, arrogance, wrong perceptions.
Methane-producing microbes may be responsible for the largest mass extinction in Earth's history. Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on Earth were suddenly wiped out -- by far the largest of this planet's five known mass extinctions. It turns out that Methanosarcina had acquired a…
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Feeling different! Feeling human!
Two interesting news... First: Where do humans fall in the food chain? You can probably already guess it's somewhere between cows and polar bears, but a new study now puts a number to it: Somewhere between 2.0 and 2.6, depending on where you live. That's on a scale of 1 to about 5, in which…
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Drugs as a way to release the mind (?!)
A researcher. A thinker. And yet, a drug user... Every place will hold its secrets from you. You can never see the Amazon jungle, if you keep intact the bubble of linguistic assumptions of the place you started out from. (Terence McKenna discusses if reality is real) Culture and ideology are not your friends. This…
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Middle Ages - An era of light!
Many people refer to the Middle Ages as a "dark" era. But take a look closer. Why do they say that? The main reason is that during these ages research in sciences like mathematics, geometry, astronomy et cetera was not so intense as, e.g., in the era before Christ. But is that really bad? Do…
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