Tag: death
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Insignificant specks...
Vast universe. Huge planet. Look. In the desert. Insignificant specks. In the forest. Smiling. Walking down the road. (Good morning Madam!) Crying. Playing on the street. (Do you remember yourself as a child?) Cherries. Look. Feel the cold water. In a million years... We will not be here. Insignificant specks. Die. And the cosmos will…
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With respect to the dead... [The Coronavirus Sweden example]
Coronavirus crisis has helped in revealing the true nature of people and of states. Crises of such proportions do have the tendency of doing so. Within the crisis people feared death, people laughed at death, people showed ignorance of epic proportions for basic scientific facts, others just chose to worry about everything while some of…
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Spreading disease…
What if social behavior affected the progression of even noncontagious diseases? This is precisely what has now been demonstrated. Using a fly model of intestinal cancer, the researchers have shown that disease progression is impacted both by social isolation - which has a negative effect - and the composition of the social group with which…
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Built from glass…
Ever wondered how groups of cells managed to build your tissues and organs while you were just an embryo? Using state-of-the-art techniques he developed, UC Santa Barbara researcher Otger Campàs and his group have cracked this longstanding mystery, revealing the astonishing innerworkings of how embryos are physically constructed. Cells coordinate by exchanging biochemical signals, but…
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Coronavirus: Selecting who will die. Playing God. Hubris. Punishment.
Many talk about the coronavirus. Many have opinions. Many theories. And one theory that is starting to gain a lot of followers is the one that England has decided to apply: Let's sacrifice some to save others. Let the vulnerable groups and old men die and let the rest live. If we don't do it,…
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