Tag: death
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Falling leaf... ['Life & Death' poem collection]
'Oh, leaf!', you cry... Once proud and alive. Beautiful. Now dead. Falling down... Soon it will be no more. Cry not for that leaf. Falling down... In the midst of nothingness, Whispering... 'Oh man! Do you see me cry?'
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Happy new year, with disease and misery! (again)
Harmonia Philosophica has said it before more than once, but repetition is the mother of learning... Most of us do not want to be reminded of the basic element of life. For all of you that had the courage to continue reading this wire despite its despicable title, I have one reminder: health is overrated!…
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Walking on the moon… Looking in the Sun…
A new controversial study claims that the moon was able to sustain life at some point in time. (1) We used to dwell in the darkness. We used to worship the dark Dionysus. We were not only born in darkness. We were molded by it. Yes, we used to live on the moon. But now…
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Dead. But still alive. The fallacy of definitions. The wisdom of not knowing...
Brain activity was detected as much as 10 minutes after death. (1) Well, at least "death" by the current standards of what dead means. Our definitions have come back to bite us. We have rushed to define death. But we do not even know what life is. Look at that butterfly. It knows more than…
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Replication and cell identity. The birth of death.
The set of genes a cell expresses determines if it's a skin cell, nerve cell or a heart muscle cell, among the 200 or so different cell types found in the human body". Prior to cell division, chromosomes are seemingly a jumbled mess. During cell division, parent cell chromosomes and their duplicates sort themselves out…
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