Merlin the magician: from devil’s son to King Arthur’s trusted advisor
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Article,
blogs.bl.uk
Merlin the magician: from devil’s son to King Arthur’s trusted advisor
Merlin is the central mythical character in the world of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. A shadowy and untameable figure who seldom takes a single form for long enough to show us his true nature, he eludes definition today, just as he did…
Ancient Spartans didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues
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Article,
Science
Ancient Greeks didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues
Stories of Sparta aside, analysis questions idea that infirm infants were abandoned to die
Why Tacit Knowledge Is More Important Than Deliberate Practice
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Article,
Commoncog
Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice
What tacit knowledge is, and why it is the most interesting topic in the study of expertise today.
Exercise plasma boosts memory and dampens brain inflammation via clusterin
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Article,
Nature
Exercise plasma boosts memory and dampens brain inflammation via clusterin
Nature - Plasma from voluntarily running mice reduces baseline expression of neuroinflammatory genes and experimentally induced brain inflammation when infused into sedentary mice.
Forwarded from Brittany Sellner
If you don’t want to take the vaccine, you’re basically a terrorist 😑
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Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging
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Article,
The Japan Times
Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging
The vaccine enables the body to create antibodies that attach themselves to senescent cells, which are removed by white blood cells.
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Jabs do not reduce risk of passing Covid within household, study suggests
Research reveals fully vaccinated people are just as likely to pass virus on to those they share a home with
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Research reveals fully vaccinated people are just as likely to pass virus on to those they share a home with
Article
the Guardian
Jabs do not reduce risk of passing Covid within household, study suggests
Research reveals fully vaccinated people are just as likely to pass virus on to others in their household
The Decline of the West:
Form and Actuality
Oswald Spengler
The first volume of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West is a classic milestone in the annals of historiography.
Like organisms that are born, mature and eventually die, cultures are the blossoming youth while civilizations usher in senility, decay and demise. When a culture becomes a civilization, decadence sets in and the ensuing downward spiral becomes a Faustian whirlwind of self-destruction. This is inevitable as we can see that each culture's evolution has its parallels in other periods of human history.
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@IntegralLife
Form and Actuality
Oswald Spengler
The first volume of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West is a classic milestone in the annals of historiography.
Like organisms that are born, mature and eventually die, cultures are the blossoming youth while civilizations usher in senility, decay and demise. When a culture becomes a civilization, decadence sets in and the ensuing downward spiral becomes a Faustian whirlwind of self-destruction. This is inevitable as we can see that each culture's evolution has its parallels in other periods of human history.
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@IntegralLife
The Decline of the West:
Perspectives of World-History
Oswald Spengler
In the second and more controversial, albeit optimistic, volume of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler deals with the world historical perspectives of his comparative cultural morphology.
In the second and more controversial, albeit optimistic, volume of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler deals with the world historical perspectives of his comparative cultural morphology. The periodical calm surrounding the constant and eternally recurring movements, described in the first volume, is over. Spengler develops his theory of "Caesarism" - a tendency towards dictatorship peculiar to mass democracy.
Perspectives of World-History
Oswald Spengler
In the second and more controversial, albeit optimistic, volume of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler deals with the world historical perspectives of his comparative cultural morphology.
In the second and more controversial, albeit optimistic, volume of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler deals with the world historical perspectives of his comparative cultural morphology. The periodical calm surrounding the constant and eternally recurring movements, described in the first volume, is over. Spengler develops his theory of "Caesarism" - a tendency towards dictatorship peculiar to mass democracy.