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There is no pink. Another cool video by minutephysics.

The street art collective Mentalgassi turned this trailer into a camera as part of Amnesty International’s Making the Invisible Visible campaign. This is how they made massive photo murals of people’s faces and plastered them around Spain.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Albert Camus
What does it mean to live in a universe that is expanding at an accelerating rate?
Humans have a perplexing tendency to fear rare threats such as shark attacks while ignoring far greater risks like unsafe sex and an unhealthy diet. Those illusions are not just silly—they make the world a more dangerous place.
There are approximately 125 billion galaxies in the universe. The Drake Equation calculates the probability that there is intelligent life beyond Earth at around 100% and some physicists believe we’ll make contact with aliens during this century. But what then? How Dolphins could help us communicate with aliens.

There are approximately 125 billion galaxies in the universe. The Drake Equation calculates the probability that there is intelligent life beyond Earth at around 100% and some physicists believe we’ll make contact with aliens during this century. But what then? How Dolphins could help us communicate with aliens.

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They argue that consciousness of a decision may be a mere biochemical afterthought, with no influence whatsoever on a person’s actions. According to this logic, they say, free will is an illusion. “We feel we choose, but we don’t,” says Patrick Haggard

They argue that consciousness of a decision may be a mere biochemical afterthought, with no influence whatsoever on a person’s actions. According to this logic, they say, free will is an illusion. “We feel we choose, but we don’t,” says Patrick Haggard


“People have been discovering components of DNA in meteorites since the 1960′s, but researchers were unsure whether they were really created in space or if instead they came from contamination by terrestrial life,” said Dr. Michael Callahan of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. “For the first time, we have three lines of evidence that together give us confidence these DNA building blocks actually were created in space.”

“People have been discovering components of DNA in meteorites since the 1960′s, but researchers were unsure whether they were really created in space or if instead they came from contamination by terrestrial life,” said Dr. Michael Callahan of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. “For the first time, we have three lines of evidence that together give us confidence these DNA building blocks actually were created in space.”