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Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, according to a new study
Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, according to a new study
The light of someone's life might not be just another person, but light in the literal sense. According to a recent study by researchers from University of Calgary, every living system emits light without requiring external excitation due to a biological phenomenon known as ultraweak photon emission (UPE).
·phys.org·
Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, according to a new study
On The Death of Daydreaming
On The Death of Daydreaming
What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time
friends would tell me: “this is happening to me too.” I realized that the global transition to a phone-based life is transforming everyone’s consciousness
·afterbabel.com·
On The Death of Daydreaming
How to live an intellectually rich life
How to live an intellectually rich life
.. and how living one is easier than you think
Epistemic Anxiety is the feeling of uneasiness, tension, and concern when you want to know the truth. You worry that your knowledge is incomplete and full of errors, and you may believe it. You either lack the resources, methods or agency to get to the truth
·utsavmamoria.substack.com·
How to live an intellectually rich life
Spain-Portugal Power Outage: Why Restarting a Grid Is So Hard
Spain-Portugal Power Outage: Why Restarting a Grid Is So Hard
It’s a worst case scenario that grid operators plan for but hope never to encounter. After one of the worst blackouts in Europe in more than a decade, electricity grid operators in Spain and Portugal are trying to get networks back up and running from the ground up.
·bloomberg.com·
Spain-Portugal Power Outage: Why Restarting a Grid Is So Hard