No creature ever goes extinct. That is an illusion of a three dimensional view of time. Viewed in the fourth dimension every species would look like a hydra with a million heads. The DNA base four code never loses information it only accumulates information. In fact this is its true function. The…
Telescope into your eye down thru your iris, burrow into the optic fiber, zoom down to single cell, slam through the outer walls of the cell, the outer ramparts, leap over the membranal moats with sentries at the gate and the little spy cells swimming in the murky water or shadowed into the walls…
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The assumption of “free will” is always a tiresome argument. Firstly, if we grant humans free will, there is no reason to deny it of other animals. What about our decision process is “freer” than non-human animals? Why…
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Ahhh, yes!
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Women in Science
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin – born on this day in 1910 – is the only British woman to ever win a Nobel Prize in science. She was an expert X-ray crystallographer, who deduced the structure of vitamin B12, penicillin and the protein hormone, insulin. When Dorothy was admitted to study at the University of Oxford they were then imposing a quota on women such that they never exceed one in every four students. While this rule no longer applies, and society no longer expects women to give up their jobs to have a family, there are still few women in positions of scientific leadership. This short film introduces a jewellery heirloom scheme for women in science, run jointly by the Medical Research Council and University of the Arts, London. The aim of the scheme is to encourage women to pursue positions of power within the scientific realm.
Written by Brona McVittie
(Source: bpod.mrc.ac.uk)
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One afternoon a teacher and his student were practicing meditation. The teacher was aware that the student’s mind was wandering and her heart was heavy. The teacher said nothing and continued with the lesson. Finally the student turned to the teacher and asked:
Student: Teacher what is…
