Stories
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Chillies and the trouble with Scoville
Measuring the heat of these peppers can leave you a little lukewarm.
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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life
Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.
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Good animals, bad humans?
Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.
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Why the scariest monsters look almost human
Something is wrong, but you’re not sure what. Amy Jones explores exactly why your worst nightmare is the monster that’s almost human.
Catalogue
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Aquinas on the beginning and end of human life / Fabrizio Amerini ; translated by Mark Henninger.
Amerini, Fabrizio.Date: 2013, ©2013- Videos
The human body. Part 3, First steps.
Date: 1998- Books
Defining the beginning and end of life : readings on personal identity and bioethics / edited by John P. Lizza.
Date: 2009- Books
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A journey thro' the world: in a view of the several stages of human life. Containing, I. An examination into the beginning of our existence, or coming into the World. II. Directions to those, who have the Government of Children, how to guard them in those Innocent Days against the Corruptions, which presently offer themselves, thereby to deprive them of that Innocence, that they are then endued with. III. Instructions to those of further Years, how to employ their Time innocently, and to guard against being led into the Way of Destruction. IV. Endeavours to confirm and strengthen those of riper Year in the Ways of Religion and Virtue. V. Perswasions to such, who have been overcome by bad Examples, or enticeing Gratification; and who are thereby in the Snare of the Devil, to return speedily from their present imminent Danger to a hearty Sorrow for their lost Time, and to make good the great Business, for which they were sent into the World. VI. Encouragements to all to persevere in a Course of Godliness without Weariness. Vii. The advantages, that will be reaped by a holy life. Adapted to common Capacities, and fit for all Sorts and Conditions of Men. By Benjamin Parker, Author of the Philosophical Meditations.
Parker, Benjamin, -1747.Date: [1737?]- Books
An essay on the wear and tear of human life, and the real remedy for this complaint / by G.T. Hayden.
Hayden, G. T. (George Thomas), 1798-1857.Date: 1846