Image of My Own Personal Nothingness - From a childhood hallucination to the halls of theoretical physics
My Own Personal Nothingness - From a childhood hallucination to the halls of theoretical physics
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“Nothing will come of nothing.”(William Shakespeare, King Lear) “Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”(Blaise...
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Yes, You Can Catch Insanity: Reviving the debate about the immune system and mental illness.
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One day in March 2010, Isak McCune started clearing his throat with a forceful, violent sound. The New Hampshire toddler was 3, with a Beatles mop of blonde hair and a cuddly, loving personality. H...
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Sound and Touch Collide
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Humans have five distinct senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. For decades, researchers have thought that each sense is processed separately in the cortex, or outer layers of the brain, and...
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A controversial test for self-awareness is dividing the animal kingdom.
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“It’s not the ability to recognize yourself in a mirror that is important,” he would come to believe. “It’s what that says about your ability to conceive of yourself in t...