Tag: life
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Once upon a time in Hollywood... [About Death]
What does "Once upon a time in Hollywood" has to teach us? Nothing that life cannot teach us itself. The cynical nature of our existence. The void in which we experience the cosmos. The hope that we rely upon every night when we say good night: That we will wake up the next morning... Too…
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Understanding… nothing?
Scientists using machine learning - a type of artificial intelligence - with data from hundreds of children who struggle at school, identified clusters of learning difficulties which did not match the previous diagnosis the children had been given. The researchers from the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge…
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Patterns. Scarily visible…
How do the large-scale patterns we observe in evolution arise? A paper in the journal Evolution argues that many of them are a type of statistical bias caused by our unavoidably recent viewpoint looking back into the past. For example, the animals appear in the fossil record about 550 million years ago, in an enormous…
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Starving to death…
Octopuses are fascinating creatures with incredible problem-solving skills and breathtaking camouflage. But overall, they are short-lived, typically around for just one to two years. That's because they're semelparous, which means they reproduce just once before they die. Once an octopuse mother lays her eggs, she stops feeding - she'll stay and watch over her eggs…
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Insignificant specks...
Vast universe. Huge planet. Look. In the desert. Insignificant specks. In the forest. Smiling. Walking down the road. (Good morning Madam!) Crying. Playing on the street. (Do you remember yourself as a child?) Cherries. Look. Feel the cold water. In a million years... We will not be here. Insignificant specks. Die. And the cosmos will…
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