Tag: humans

Dogmatism, Life, Life, Materialism, Miracles, Religion General, Science Dogmatism

2018/11/15

Resurrection? Difficult to believe? But it happens all the time. And science is the first to acknowledge it!

Life on Earth originated in an intimate partnership between the nucleic acids (genetic instructions for all organisms) and small proteins called peptides, according to two new papers from biochemists and biologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Auckland. Their "peptide-RNA" hypothesis contradicts the widely-held "RNA-world" hypothesis, which states…
Cold science, Cold science, Emotions, Humans, Love, Love, Prediction, Scientific models

2018/08/15

Unpredictable love. Unpredictable cosmos.

Here’s some heartbreaking news for people pinning their hopes on online matchmaking sites: It’s virtually impossible to forecast a love connection. Maybe that’s not so shocking to survivors of the dating wars. But now science is weighing in. Extensive background data on two individuals — comparable to that collected by digital dating services — can’t…
Dying, Humans, Life, Life, Past

2018/07/30

Tar. Adhesive irrelevancy.

Neanderthals seem stuck with unflattering reputations. The entire species of early human ancestors has long been reduced to a pejorative for describing someone who isn’t very bright, despite growing evidence of the sophistication of Homo neanderthalensis. And recent research suggests another overlooked mark of their ingenuity: they made the first glues in the form of…
Children, Dying, Living

2018/06/20

Menopause. Living. Dying.

Instead of having more children, a grandmother may pass on her genes more successfully by using her cognitive abilities to directly or indirectly aid her existing children and grandchildren. Such an advantage could have driven the evolution of menopause in humans, according to research published in PLOS Computational Biology. (1) We live and die. And…
Dasein Philosophy, Existence, Human

2018/05/27

Caesar breath… Your breath…

Julius Caesar could have stayed home on March 15, 44 B.C. But mocking the soothsayer who had predicted his death, the emperor rode in his litter to Rome’s Forum. There he met the iron daggers of 60 senators. As he lay in a pool of blood, he may have gasped a final incrimination to his…

Tag: humans

Resurrection? Difficult to believe? But it happens all the time. And science is the first to acknowledge it!

Unpredictable love. Unpredictable cosmos.

Tar. Adhesive irrelevancy.

Menopause. Living. Dying.

Caesar breath… Your breath…