Tag: life
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What is an individual?
It’s almost impossible to imagine biology without individuals — individual organisms, individual cells, and individual genes, for example. But what about a worker ant that never reproduces, and could never survive apart from the colony? Are the trillions of microorganisms in our microbiomes, which vastly outnumber our human cells, part of our individuality? The authors…
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Ancient pottery. Cooking. Dead men.
A team has developed a new method to date archaeological pottery using fat residues remaining in the pot wall from cooking. The method means prehistoric pottery can be dated with remarkable accuracy, sometimes to the window of a human life span. Pottery found in Shoreditch, London proven to be 5,500 years old and shows the…
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Fairy tales…
But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.~ C.S. Lewis When we are kids we love fairy tales. But now we have grown up. And we consider fairy tales… fairy tales. Now we believe in science. Now we believe in what we can see. Now we believe in us…
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I don’t want to be 8…
A child crying… Because her birthday is coming… And she does not want to become 9… She wants to stay 8 for ever… Oh, dear child. Listen to me. You will be a child for ever. As your mom and me. Don’t be fooled by the aging skin. Or the tired eyes. Inside the soul,…
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What is life?
If not an invitation to dying? What is death? If not a call to being alive? Seek the truth in the irrational. Where nothing depends on anything. And the trees are the river. Flowing freely. Towards a place with no time…
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