Tag: definitions
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Fungus eating the DNA-determined dream... No peniciline available!
Fungus. Shapeshifters. Difficult to categorize. A problem to taxonomy. Neither animals nor plants. Even member of the same species can have different properties and appearance. Good thing we have the DNA analysis to determine they belong to the same species. (1) But wait a minute. The DNA says they are the same species even though...…
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Smart, stupid, IQ, categories...
At 10 a.m. Monday morning of March 3 (2014), while most of Washington, D.C., lay quietly under a blanket of snow, the U.S. Supreme Court rang with nerve-wracking arguments over the fate of Florida death row inmate Freddie Lee Hall. The question at hand was whether Hall, who in 1978 helped assault and murder a…
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Definitions, spirit, magic...
The world of spirit is something "magical". The world of spirit is something "material". The world of spirit is something "immaterial". We disagree about the name of the same thing. We accept its properties, but we are deeply disturbed if someone names it in a different way than what we want. But does it even…
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The soul of the universe...
New stem cells can be created if you make the environment around normal cells, more… stressful (e.g. acidic). (1, 2) (although this discovery was later doubted - see here and here) Everything can become life. Life is in everything. What we consider dead, has the potential to become alive. What is alive, entails death. People in the…
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(-1) times (-1) does not equal 1?
Why a negative times a negative should be a positive? (1) Is the enemy of my enemy my friend? Take a look at the following string of equations: –1 × 3 = –3 –1 × 2 = –2 –1 × 1 = –1 –1 × 0 = 0 –1 × –1 = ? Now look…
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