Tag: life
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Believing in God. Losing. Being true. (no, He will NOT save you! And that is a good thing!)
People believe in God because they believe He will save them. Because they believe He will make their lives better. But God does not do that. His own son died and suffered. God simply exists. And loves us. Death is here. Misery is here. We just have to understand what "here" is... Losing and suffering…
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Nightmare on Elm Street. A true story. Light. Dark. Dreams.
Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street will celebrate its 30th anniversary on November 9… the day the original opened up in theaters and introduced sleepy teens to the terror that is, was and forever shall be Freddy Krueger. In preparation for the milestone, Craven has been sharing a ton of information about the creation…
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Melatonin. Sleep. An ancient secret long forgotten...
As much as we may try to deny it, Earth’s cycle of day and night rules our lives. When the sun sets, the encroaching darkness sets off a chain of molecular events spreading from our eyes to our pineal gland, which oozes a hormone called melatonin into the brain. When the melatonin latches onto neurons,…
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Staying alive. Afraid to die. Accepting death. The story of our life...
Life and death... A drug used to treat advanced breast cancer has had what appears to be unprecedented success in prolonging lives in a clinical trial, researchers reported. Patients who received the drug — Perjeta, from the Swiss drug maker Roche — had a median survival time nearly 16 months longer than those in the…
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Life. Humans. Rocks. Scientific dogmatism.
Hunting from a distance of 27,000 light years, astronomers have discovered an unusual carbon-based molecule contained within a giant gas cloud in interstellar space. The discovery suggests that the complex molecules needed for life may have their origins in interstellar space. (1) Sure. Why not? But why limit the "discovery" to interstellar space? If you…
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