Our ancestors probably first discovered oysters when they were hunting and gathering food along seashores thousands of years ago. The tasty, nutritious molluscs also yielded pearls, and archaeological studies provide evidence that pearls were as highly prized in ancient cultures…
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When you visit your doctor, you may be asked to give a blood sample for a series of tests that evaluate your health. The hematological values obtained from these tests can give your doctor important information about various components of…
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Bioprospecting refers to the practice of isolating medically useful active ingredients from traditional indigenous medicines around the world or from previously unutilized plants, both usually in developing countries, and both usually (though not necessarily) by agents of multinational pharmaceutical corporations…
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Intelligent Extinction It struck me, while reading Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything” that we humans are really here by the skin of our teeth. Our ancestors have dodged every single extinction event going for millions of years….
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If you can afford it, it can seem like a tempting option: instead of facing inevitable death at the end of a long, lingering illness, simply freeze yourself in a state of cryonic preservation, and have a reputable corporation store…
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The theory of cosmic ancestry states that life on Earth originated in space, and that life as a whole has always been present within the universe, having no single identifiable point of origin (or, for that matter, point of ending…
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One of the most fascinating parts of The Matrix was watching the gradual corruption of Agent Smith. Smith is at all times the arch-nemesis of Neo and the free humans. However, in the beginning, he is a loyal if somewhat…
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Should men be allowed to be pregnant and conceive babies? My question is. Why would a man want to have a baby? Isn’t there enough perversion already in our world? We should be thanking God that we are under His…
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Amazing, hard to believe, crazy, and wow, all might be some of the things coming to your mind as you read the title of this article. The very idea that life may exist outside our own in this universe in…
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Life as we know it is changing. Every day we learn something new, exciting, some things even groundbreaking. If you look around, you can see tall sky scrapers, houses, computers, smart phones, and technology all together. In cities there may…
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