Tag: humans
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Pythons, Philosophy, going home...
Burmese pythons can find their way home even if they are taken dozens of kilometers away. It is the first demonstration that big snakes can navigate at all, and far exceeds the distances known to have been traveled by any other snake. (1) We all seek home. We all try to return home. The problem…
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Old problems, new problems, the need for love...
A newly deciphered letter home dating back around 1,800 years reveals the pleas of a young Egyptian soldier named Aurelius Polion who was serving, probably as a volunteer, in a Roman legion in Europe. In the letter, written mainly in Greek, Polion tells his family that he is desperate to hear from them and that…
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Meteorites and the true evidence for life...
The discovery of tiny carbon-rich balls and tunnels inside a Martian meteorite has once again raised the possibility that the Red Planet was teeming with primitive life millions of years ago. The meteorite, which fell to Earth during the Stone Age, contains microscopic burrows and spheres that resemble the marks microorganisms leave when they eat…
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What is really important. Nobel prizes. Women...
We believe they are lucky. (1) But we do not see how miserable they really are. Perhaps the best trick of them all, is that unhappy miserable people with money and glory have convinced "common" people that they are better and happier than them. But happiness does not come with glory or money. Happiness comes…
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Get extinct... In an elegant way!
Mammoths were extinct because some wild flowers went extinct. (1) You may think of mammoths and rinos as anything BUT elegant. You may believe that animals are… animals. But some giants eat flowers. Think of that while you are eating… burgers? How rude. At least one can say mammoths were killed because of flowers. When…
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