Only the Autodidact is Free
When I first moved to North Carolina, one of the first visits I made was to the little town of Carrboro. There sits a plaque on East Main commemorating Elizabeth “Libba” Cotton: “Key Figure. 1960s folk revival. Born and raised on Lloyd Street,” just west of Chapel Hill, in 1893. It’s an accurate-enough description of […]
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Of all of the ways of supposedly contacting the dead and the world beyond what we see, by far the most widely available and easy-to-use is the Ouija board. It has variously called a party game or a potent window to another realm, and has been the basis for numerous movies, books, and TV shows…. Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/05/the-weird-and-mysterious-history-of-the-ouija-board/…
Source: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/5/1/18523881/teen-suicide-poisoning-how-to-help…
Wikipedia editors are battling to tell the story of Brexit as it happens. And on such a hotly-debated page, every edit is controversial and suspicions run wild. From a report: Editors are parrying death threats, doxxing attempts and accusations of bias, as the crowdsourced epic has become the centre of a relentless tug-of-war over who gets to write the history of…
A poor sense of smell in older adults is linked to a nearly 50 per cent higher risk of death in the next 10 years, but the reasons for this are unclear Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2201021-a-bad-sense-of-smell-predicts-early-death-but-we-dont-know-why/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
A grain of dust forged in the death throes of a long-gone star was discovered by a team of researchers led by the University of Arizona. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-dying-star-ashes-birth-solar.html…
A grain of dust forged in the death throes of a long-gone star was discovered by a team of researchers led by the University of Arizona. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-dying-star-ashes-birth-solar.html…
Feral cats are driving many Australian species to the brink of extinction, and the government is stepping in. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65356-australia-feral-cats-poison-sausages.html
A poor sense of smell is associated with an increase in the risk of death within a decade. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65358-declining-smell-sense-foretells-death.html
A recent study of pigs’ brains suggested some activity could be restored even after they’d been dead 4 hours, reinforcing the idea that death is a process. A neuroscientist explains. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/study-death-pig-brains-activity-4-hours-later…
