Tag: paradox
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Oceans. Oxygen. Paradoxes.
With no dissolved oxygen to sustain animals or plants, ocean anoxic zones are areas where only microbes suited to the environment can live. (1) Oceans without oxygen. Planets without life. Cosmos without consciousness. But look again. Oxygen without oxygen. Life without life. Unconscious consciousness. Can't you feel it? Nothing can include itself! Unless it does…
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Random predictability…
Scientists have generated a huge true random number using DNA synthesis. It is the first time that a number of this magnitude has been created by biochemical means. (1) Random. Based on something. But everything started from nothing. Think again. Look at the obvious as you once did. Without asking for anything but what you…
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A small drop… A deep ocean…
Researchers are studying a tornado's song and other 'doors to danger' in an increasingly chaotic world. (1) Flow. From a small drop. To a small creek. A great river. Giant sea. A deep ocean. Bottomless souls. Shallow language full of self-interest and dead trees. What else can there be? But the things that are already…
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Happy new irrational year! With health and disease! With love and misery...
Happy new year! We don't know who we are. We don't know why we are here. We don't know what death is. (And yet we crave for life...) We are happy only because we cry. (And yet we crave for bliss...) We seek health. (And yet it is the pain that makes us think) Deeply…
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Seeing better. And better. And better. Until we see nothing at all…
A few years ago, a team of scientists at EPFL's Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, headed by Aleksandra Radenovic in the School of Engineering, developed an algorithm that can estimate a microscope's resolution in just a few seconds based on a single image. The algorithm's result indicates how closely a microscope is operating to its full…
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