Category: Knowledge
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Why?
Why? A question that hides all the answers. Why does the world exist? We wander… Without understanding just how what we ask also answers our question. How would we look for whys in a world without cause? How? A question that in itself explains why we should not even ask her... Everything can be done…
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Publishing in “journals”… Why elitist science is the only possible science.
Universities, colleges, even community colleges insist that faculty publish scholarly research, and the more papers the better. Academics and the schools they teach at rely on these publications to bolster their reputations, and with an oversupply of Ph.D.’s vying for jobs, careers hang in the balance. Competition is fierce to get published in leading journals.…
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Dead. But still alive. The fallacy of definitions. The wisdom of not knowing...
Brain activity was detected as much as 10 minutes after death. (1) Well, at least "death" by the current standards of what dead means. Our definitions have come back to bite us. We have rushed to define death. But we do not even know what life is. Look at that butterfly. It knows more than…
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Kronus… Hot ice… Cold fire…
The spectacular planetary nebula NGC 7009, or the Saturn Nebula, emerges from the darkness like a series of oddly-shaped bubbles, lit up in glorious pinks and blues. This colourful image was captured by the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). The map - which reveals a wealth of intricate structures in the dust,…
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Attack when they are stronger…
Does the time of day matter when our body is infected by a parasite? According to new research from McGill University, it matters a great deal. Our body works differently at different times of the day following our internal clocks. Researchers from McGill University and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute have now established that…
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