Tag: life
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Life expectancy - The lie of modern medicine (version 2)
It isn't only biblical figures who lived to well-seasoned ages of 900 years or more. Ancient texts from many cultures have listed life spans most modern people find simply and literally unbelievable. Some say it’s due to misunderstandings in the translation process, or that the numbers have symbolic meaning—but against the many explanations are also…
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Life. Referendums. Unfair. Fair.
Scottish referendum. (1) A decision defining the future of a nation, depending on one vote. Someone sleeping late, someone being sick, someone having a fight with his wife. Important things, depending on unimportant ones. This is life. We believe this is unfair. But what if not thing is "important"? What is nothing is "unimportant"? What if…
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Shakespeare. Chinese. The essence.
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to translate the entire works of the Bard into Mandarin as part of efforts to foster greater cultural ties with China. Culture Secretary, Sajid Javid, announced funding of £1.5m to pay for the project, which will also cover the translation of up to 14 important Chinese plays into English. (1, 2)…
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A deaf kid. A loving mother. A smile.
A deaf boy listening to his mother for the first time with the help of a hearing aid… (1) Is that lifeless matter organized into something that gives us the impression of consciousness? Can we really degrade pure happiness and love into lifeless particles? How much more will we let our beliefs guide our thoughts?…
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Gut, viruses, life itself...
Odds are, there's a virus living inside your gut that has gone undetected by scientists for decades. A new study has found that more than half the world's population is host to a newly described virus, named crAssphage, which infects one of the most common gut bacterial species, Bacteroides. This bacterium thought to be connected…
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