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Humans and Neanderthals Might Have Interbred
Found : Humans and Neanderthals Might Have Interbred As modern humans spread across Europe tens of thousands of years ago, they may have interbred with Neanderthals, creating hybrids, according to a new study of ancient human bones from Romania. Anthropologists have long wondered what happened when the two species met as modern humans spread from [...]
Bataille's Columbine: The Sacred Space Of Hate
Found : Bataille’s Columbine: The Sacred Space Of Hate Bataille's "heterology" – from the Greek word for difference – concerns the different as such. It is the difference that must be expelled from the same in order for the same to be the same. In bodily terms: excretions of all kinds; in the body-politic: sacrifice [...]
In an infinite universe must even impossible events happen at least once?
Found : In an infinite universe must even impossible events happen at least once? As for the OP, you'll want to read Many Worlds in One [2006] by Alex Vilenkin. Like frog march, Vilenkin posits that "if something has a non-zero chance of happening in a universe that is infinite and with infinite time, then [...]
Psychedelics inspired Biblical visions of the prophet Moses
Found : Psychedelics inspired Biblical visions of the prophet Moses High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week. Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, [...]
The oscillating universe theory rides again
Found : The oscillating universe theory rides again BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Universe 'child of previous one' A joint UK-US team has put forward an alternative theory of cosmic evolution. It proposes that the Universe undergoes cycles of "Big Bangs" and "Big Crunches", meaning our Universe is merely a "child of the previous one". [...]
Jean Baudrillard, 9/11 and the Spirit of Terrorism
Found : Jean Baudrillard. The Spirit of Terrorism. “It is very logically, and inexorably, that the (literally: “rise to power of power”) exacerbates a will to destroy it. And power is complicit with its own destruction. When the two towers collapsed, one could feel that they answered the suicide of the kamikazes by their own [...]
Top stars picked in alien search
Found : Top stars picked in alien search A US astronomer has drawn up a shortlist of the stars most likely to harbour intelligent life. Scientists have been listening out for radio signals from other solar systems in the hope of detecting civilisations other than our own. Margaret Turnbull at the Carnegie Institution in Washington [...]
Astrobiology: The Living Universe
Found : Astrobiology: The Living Universe A theory called panspermia states that the Earth was "seeded" with life when celestial objects collided with the Earth. The term panspermia is Greek for ‘seeds everywhere’. While the idea of life on Earth having originated elsewhere in the galaxy had been discussed by ancient greek philosophers, the modern [...]
Biblical Applications of Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
Found : Biblical Applications of Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development Kohlberg observed that growing children advance through definite stages of moral development in a manner similar to their progression through Piaget's well-known stages of cognitive development. His observations and testing of children and adults, led him to theorize that human beings progress consecutively from one [...]
Neanderthals were not 'stupid,' says new research
Found : Neanderthals were not ‘stupid,’ says new research LONDON (AFP) — Neanderthals were not as stupid as they have been portrayed, according to new research Tuesday showing their stone tools were as good as those made by the early ancestors of modern humans, Homo sapiens. The findings by a team of scientists at British [...]
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