The author of Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler, was an outstanding Hungarian-British writer. His novels covered a wide variety of subjects, from genetics and biology to politics and religion. Many of his books, including Darkness at Noon, influenced Europe scientifically, politically, and ...
Therefore, by anticipating the worst, one can safeguard themselves against future disappointment, as any result is likely to surpass their expectations. But other psychological theories undermine the idea that bracing will be ...
The science fiction and fantasy genres often overlap and many popular science fiction stories also include fantasy elements. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a prominent example, with its popular movies, shows, and comics featuring scientifically plausible superheroes like Iron Man and Black Panther alo...
More About This Book The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza Shaun David Hutchinson Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product of a virgin birth.This can be scientifically explained (it's called parthenogenesis), but what can't be explained is how Elena is able to heal Freddie, the girl she's ...
Bacterial oxygen tolerance appears to be scientifically and industrially significant. Low tolerance will result in decreased activity or cell death already at the stage of preparing the bacteria for further stimulation in the experiment. This, in turn, may affect the altered eukaryotic cell response ...
This in older cultures was seen as the ‘little death’, because they understood that is is what happens when we die.It is a vast darkness that is the source of everything, the source of our own existence as a person. It is our unconscious self until we pierce it with consciousness. ...
Today, we are very rapidly entering a world that is wholly data-driven, and we mostly communicate with people (on phones, online, via books, via art), whose genetic constitution is not a thing that can be observed in any scientifically meaningful way. That means that in the old days, ...
So even while spouting about how healthy (read: thin and young) they strive to be, many celebrities participate in two behaviours that are scientifically proven to be both aging and disease causing: smoking and tanning. An astonishing number of celebrities smoke! Their publicists work hard to ...
(take a plant from your window, put it in total darkness for ten days and see what happens). The chlorophyll inside the ball seems to be in some kind of hibernation in the dark, but if it becomes exposed to light e.g. if a ball breaks up, it is activated again. This phenomenon ...
On Earth, our sense of one day is governed by the fact that the planet completes one rotation every 24 hours, giving most locations a consistent cycle of daylight and darkened nights. On the moon, however, the equator receives roughly 14 days of sunlight followed b...