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Transitioning and the family album
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Rejecting shame and a decade of change
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Living with less for spiritual gain
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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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Minutes of the Society for Philosophical Experiments and Conversations.
Society for Philosophical Experiments and Conversations.Date: 1795- Books
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Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin, L. L. D. and F. R. S. Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, of the Royal Society at Gottingen, and of the Batavian Society in Holland, and President of the Philosophical Society at Philadelphia. To which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now collected into one volume, and illustrated with copper plates.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Three lectures on muscular motion, read before the Royal Society in the year MDCCXXXVIII: as appointed by the will of Lady Sadleir, pursuant to the design of her first husband William Croone, M. D. Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society: being a supplement to the Philosophical transactions for that year. Wherein The Elasticity of Fluids, and the immediate Cause of the Cohesion and Elasticity of Solids, are proved by Experiments, &c. and Elasticity of Solids, are proved by Experiments, &c. and shewn to arise from the same Principle as Gravity: With a General Scheme of Muscular Motion, founded on Anatomy, Experiments, &c. By Alexander Stuart, M. D. Physician in Ordinary to her late Majesty Queen Caroline, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society.
Stuart, Alexander, 1673-1742.Date: 1739- Books
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Experiments and observations relating to the analysis of atmospherical air; also, farther experiments relating to the generation of air from water. Read before the American Philosophical Society. Feb. 5 and 19, 1796; and printed in their transactions. To which are added, Considerations on the doctrine o phlogiston, and the decomposition of water. Addressed to Messrs. Berthollet, &c. By Joseph Priestley, L. L. D. F. R. S. &c. &c.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.Date: 1796- Books
Franklin and Newton : an inquiry into speculative Newtonian experimental science and Franklin's work in electricity as an example thereof / I. Bernard Cohen.
Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003Date: 1956