Category: Life and Death
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Eternal recurrence… Cycles… Dasein into nothingness…
It is one of the most astonishing results of physics: when a complex system is left alone, it will return to its initial state with almost perfect precision. Gas particles, for example, chaotically swirling around in a container, will return almost exactly to their starting positions after some time. This "Poincaré Recurrence Theorem" is the…
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Art. Caves. Sound. From silence…
When and where did humans develop language? To find out, look deep inside caves, suggests an MIT professor. More precisely, some specific features of cave art may provide clues about how our symbolic, multifaceted language capabilities evolved, according to a paper co-authored by MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa. A key to this idea is that cave…
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Funny things. There is nothing more serious... [Poem]
Look at the funniest things. Listen to the funniest jokes. And withing their laughter. You will hear people crying...
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![Memento Mori. [Remember to Die] (Poem)](https://harmoniaphilosophica.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_20190411_185643_memento_mori-960x260.jpg)
Memento Mori. [Remember to Die] (Poem)
Don't worry. Everything is fine. For even when everything is not all right. At the end... Everything will be all right... [Photos from Hietaniemen cemetery in Helsinki, Finland]
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Cognitive ability. Longevity.
Investigators at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research discovered dozens of new genetic variations associated with a person's general cognitive ability. The findings, which were published online today in Cell Reports, have the potential to help researchers develop more targeted treatment for cognitive and memory disorders. "For the first time, we were able to use…
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