Category: Life and Death

  • I don’t want to be 8…

    A child crying… Because her birthday is coming… And she does not want to become 9… She wants to stay 8 for ever… Oh, dear child. Listen to me. You will be a child for ever. As your mom and me. Don’t be fooled by the aging skin. Or the tired eyes. Inside the soul,…

  • What is life?

    If not an invitation to dying? What is death? If not a call to being alive? Seek the truth in the irrational. Where nothing depends on anything. And the trees are the river. Flowing freely. Towards a place with no time…

  • Cowards… Seeking meaning in life…

    Cowards… Seeking meaning in life…

    Over the last three decades, meaning in life has emerged as an important question in medical research, especially in the context of an aging population. A recent study by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that the presence of and search for meaning in life are important for health and…

  • Free access to… microbes! Free access to… life! 

    Free access to… microbes! Free access to… life! 

    Poverty increases the risk for numerous diseases by limiting people’s access to healthy food, environments and stress-free conditions. In a new essay published November 26 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, Suzanne Ishaq and colleagues at the University of Oregon, argue that poverty also compromises health by creating unequal access to beneficial microorganisms.   People living…

  • Inevitable life. Inevitable death…

    Inevitable life. Inevitable death…

    To help answer one of the great existential questions — how did life begin? — a study combines biological and cosmological models. Professor Tomonori Totani from the Department of Astronomy looked at how life’s building blocks could spontaneously form in the universe — a process known as abiogenesis. As the only life we know of…

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