Tag: being
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Hyperactive. Alive. Dead. (Easiest way to be…)
A psychology and neuroscience professor has just targeted an early biomarker of the disease. He found that Abnormal hyperactivation in the brain may be an early sign of Alzheimer's. (1) Hyper activity. Leading to destruction. The story of our lives. The story of civilization and being. Oh, so many good things happening because they do.…
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New genes! New inventions! So?! (Me!)
Thanks to the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii, an animal whose genes have evolved very slowly, scientists have shown that while haemoglobin appeared independently in several species, it actually descends from a single gene transmitted to all by their last common ancestor. (1) Things discovered. Only because they would anyway be. By someone else. In the…
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Oceans. Oxygen. Paradoxes.
With no dissolved oxygen to sustain animals or plants, ocean anoxic zones are areas where only microbes suited to the environment can live. (1) Oceans without oxygen. Planets without life. Cosmos without consciousness. But look again. Oxygen without oxygen. Life without life. Unconscious consciousness. Can't you feel it? Nothing can include itself! Unless it does…
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Knowing thy name…
Physicists surprised to find that in specially coated tubes, the more viscous a liquid is, the faster it flows. (1) Water. Dripping fast. Honey. Dripping slow. Things changing. Only because of things changing. Honey. Dripping fast. Water. Dripping slow. Ask yourself. Would you ever ask why? Oh, wise man... (What is your name?)
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Cloning. Being.
The identity of wild cloning sea star larvae has been a mystery since they were first documented in the Caribbean. The most commonly collected cloning species was thought to belong to the Oreasteridae, on the basis of similarity with sequences from Oreaster reticulatus and Oreaster clavatus. (1) Sea stars cloning themselves. Humans drowning. Stars exploding.…
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