Category: Religion Philosophy
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Creating. Roaming free. (Will you kill me?)
Robots exploring deep bodies of water can only go so far before needing to recharge and upload data. Purdue University engineers have designed a mobile docking station system that would help them go farther. (1) How proud we are when creating something. Especially when creating something autonomous. Something that will roam free and independent. So…
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Jesus dying: A story we should invent if it did not exist...
Jesus Christ is undoubtedly a very important figure. He is important for Christians, for obvious reasons. He is important to people who are not Christians due to his teachings and the effect He had on our civilization from His birth up to now. He is even important for atheists and agnostics alike, who always like…
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What is an individual?
It's almost impossible to imagine biology without individuals -- individual organisms, individual cells, and individual genes, for example. But what about a worker ant that never reproduces, and could never survive apart from the colony? Are the trillions of microorganisms in our microbiomes, which vastly outnumber our human cells, part of our individuality? The authors…
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Women. Men. Religiousness. Atheism.
Women are more religious than men. (1) In the old days the society was matriarchal. Now men oppress women. Now atheism is on the rise... We must give to women the place they deserve. Once upon a time we worshiped Gaia. Once upon a time we worshiped Holy Mary. Once upon a time we were…
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Observe.
A new device enables researchers to observe hundreds of neurons in the brain in real-time. The system is based on modified silicon chips from cameras, but rather than taking a picture, it takes a movie of the neural electrical activity. (1) Once a man tried to observe the cosmos. And he cannot stop ever since.…
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