Stories
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Transitioning and the family album
“It’s really hard to describe to people how you know you’re a man when those ways of describing masculinity to me aren’t true. You need to find your own.”
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Rejecting shame and a decade of change
Jess Thom spent years trying to ignore and suppress the tics of Tourette’s syndrome. Read what happened when she decided to celebrate them instead.
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Living with less for spiritual gain
Today, a minimalist lifestyle is trumpeted as a route to happiness. Find out what religious ascetics from history and modern proponents of the spartan-looking home can teach us.
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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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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
Experiments and observations tending to show the composition and properties of urinary concretions / [George Pearson].
Pearson, George, 1751-1828Date: [1798]- Books
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Experiments on the dyeing properties of lichens / by W. Lauder Lindsay.
Lindsay, W. Lauder (William Lauder), 1829-1880.Date: [1854]