Gary Paulsen, author of wilderness-centered young adult fiction, has died at the age of 82. Paulsen is perhaps most famous for Hatchet, a tale of a teenage boy who crash-lands alone in the Canadian wilderness and must survive the summer with only the t…
防災グッズをアップデートせよ！ 災害時にもっておくべき6つのギア
9月1日は防災の日。そして2021年は東日本大震災から10年という節目の年でもあり、“災害列島”に暮らすわたしたちにとって防災意識を見直すいい機会になる。クローゼットにしまった避難用具のメンテナンスは十分だろうか？ より万全の対策を期すべく、災害対策をアップデートするギアを紹介しよう。
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What is life?
Scientists Are Proposing a Radical New Framework to Redefine Life on Earth – “The union of two energetic and informatic processes that can encode and pass on adaptive information forward through time. Using this definition vastly increases what can be …
Vitamin D and Cancer in African-Americans
H/T The Breviary (here). Differences in vitamin D status may account for unexplained disparities in cancer survival rates between African and White Americans Authors: William B. Grant and Alan N. Peiris View affiliations Abstract: Considerable dispa…