Category: Life and Death
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Immortality: Overrated.
The tiny freshwater polyp Hydra does not show any signs of aging and is potentially immortal. [1] There is a rather simple biological explanation for this: these animals exclusively reproduce by budding rather than by mating. Would we want to be Immortals? Dying is part of life and yet we are so obsessed with bypassing…
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Future affecting the past 2: The creepy coincidence of Richard Parker(s)...
In Edgar Allan Poe's only novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, published in 1838, Richard Parker is a mutinous sailor on the whaling ship Grampus. After the ship capsizes in a storm, he and three other survivors manage to catch a tortoise to eat while stranded on the sea. However after some days they have…
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You will Die.
You will soon die. Have you forgotten it? Do you feel unpleasant when someone reminds you of that little truth? How do you live, without remembering the most important part of life? Do you fear enough? Are you enslaved enough to your body? Do you worship the temporary? Socrates slept peacefully one day before his…
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Follow the current with Free will...
Most people when they are driven away by a current, try to resist. And most people drown in their attempt to do so. Having the wisdom to know when you must let yourself float freely in the powerful current is too difficult for most of us to master... Doing so does not mean that you…
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Facebook Murders - Signs of our times?
A kid killed another kid due to comments made on a Facebook Wall...!!! [1] Too ugly to be true. But yet again, when was reality beautiful? Similar Facebook murder have taken place again [2]. Death was always part of human life. The only difference is that now death comes for much less important reasons sometimes...…
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