I Sing the Body Electric
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In the 1990 film Awakenings, based on Oliver Sacks’s memoir of the same name, a patient named Lucy Fishman (Alice Drummond), ...
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While I was researching the infectious vectors of Blastocystis Hominis, I came across some interesting statistics. According to Wikipedia, the ...
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The universe is expanding. So ... Are we? A typical answer we get to this question runs something like this: ...
Read More This Is Not a Vacuum
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In 1984, at my public high school in Winchester, Massachusetts, there was a world-class biology teacher named Jerome Burdulis. Mr. ...
Read More Olive Oil & the Nature of Reality
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“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it.” —Albert Einstein “The trouble is that like all great truths ...
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In these holographic models, the speed of light is the baseline, but the baseline can be viewed in different ways, ...
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