Tag: death
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Help not. Bird dying…
When a coworker or employee is struggling, is it better to offer help on the job or just a shoulder to cry on? A study led by San Francisco State University researchers showed that the two forms of support do roughly the same thing - but that sometimes, it's best not to address the situation…
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Alive! [Poetic terror]
Oh, terror! Will I die? Erased from the pages of existence? Will I seize to be? Breathless. I can almost feel the darkness. Flying in empty space. Beyond the rings of Saturn. I can almost listen to the whisper of silence. Empty. (Can anything be empty?) Rays of light. I can almost feel the warmth…
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Life. Existence. Quantum mechanics.
We're a little closer to explaining life with quantum mechanics thanks to research carried out with an IBM supercomputer. Encoding behaviours related to self-replication, mutation, interaction between individuals, and (inevitably) death, a quantum algorithm has been used to show that quantum computers can indeed mimic some of the patterns of biology in the real world.…
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Outside the Church!
We usually forget what is obvious. This photo won a Pulitzer Prize, depicting a priest holding a soldier who dies in Venezuela (details here). We tend to go to church to remember that we are Christians. To light a candle, to pray, to feel mentally uplifted. And yet, Christianity is not the buildings. Not even…
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Starving to death…
Octopuses are fascinating creatures with incredible problem-solving skills and breathtaking camouflage. But overall, they are short-lived, typically around for just one to two years. That's because they're semelparous, which means they reproduce just once before they die. Once an octopuse mother lays her eggs, she stops feeding - she'll stay and watch over her eggs…
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