Category: Life and Death
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Disease, definitions, change...
People who carry a high-risk gene for Alzheimer's disease show changes in their brains beginning in childhood, decades before the illness appears, new research from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) suggests. (1) When does a change start? When does a disease begin? Arbitrary definitions, haunting our lives... Being ill all the time.…
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Zoos, lions, fear of death...
A lion in a Dallas zoo killed a lioness in front of people visiting the facility, stirring some intense reactions. (1) We have alienated ourselves from the only natural thing that defines us: Death. We have been too much accustomed to seeing death only on TV, that we are ready to puke every time we…
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Blood tests, suicide, the unexplained…
Could a blood test predict whether a person is at risk of committing suicide? For the first time, a set of proteins in the blood have been linked to suicidal behaviour. People who commit suicide appear to share a number of biological traits, regardless of any underlying conditions. This hints that suicidal behaviour may be…
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My stroke of Insight: Connecting to the One!
An awesome talk by a neurologist who had a stroke. Look at it here. Random thoughts... Left brain: The "I". Serial processor Leans - Thinks linearly and methodically. It is about the past and the future. Take the collage of the present moment and think about details, categorize, associate the past, project into the future.…
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Sad Wedding...
"Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature" - Emerson [1]
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