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Five years after the pandemic began, a haunting question remains: Why do millions suffer long after the virus has cleared? A compelling new hypothesis suggests that SARS-CoV-2 acts as a master key, unlocking ancient viruses, latent bacteria, and genetic “ghosts” that have been hiding within us all along.
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Lobsters exhibit negligible senescence, defying the decay that defines human aging. Yet their secret- unrestricted telomerase- reveals a fatal paradox: the same fuel for their longevity acts as a driver for cancer in our complex bodies. Aging is an unavoidable cost of multicellularity- a compromise evolution made to maintain order among trillions of cells.
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From the collapsed dynasties of ancient Egypt to the hemophilia of Victorian Europe, the human quest for “lineage purity” has come at a devastating biological cost. This article explores how endogamy and consanguineous marriage have acted as a “genetic prison,” narrowing our diversity and exposing us to hereditary diseases- and why breaking these ancient walls…
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There are viral ghosts within us, lurking in our DNA. Transposons or Jumping genes are remnants of ancient retroviral infections. Almost half of our genome is made up of these viral DNA that has made its home in our Genome. They can form “dark antigens”- hidden viral proteins that evade immune detection and this biological…
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All eels on earth begin their life at Saragossa Sea, a small patch of Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda Triangle. How a river-dwelling fish is tied to an oceanic cradle millions of years older than humanity.
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When the Sumerians reached Iraq’s southern coast for the first time around 5500 BCE, the last of the Wooly Mammoths were fighting for their survival on the other side of the world. They had made Wrangel Island their home and fought to endure, just as the Sumerians were sowing the seeds of the first civilization…
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For the following hundred and fifty years, the Guti ruled Mesopotamia in misery; it can be called a dark age. There is little written record or art from this time, and the ones found are unsophisticated. The Guti showed little concern for maintaining agriculture, written records, or public safety.
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One man would soon lead them to outright rebellion against Sumerian Empire. He would go down history as Sargon, which in Akkadian means “one true king”. He would usher in the twilight of the Sumerian age.
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Another Sumerian city, Ur gradually replaced Uruk as the center of Mesopotamia in the first centuries of the next millennium. It would flourish into realms of untold wealth pushing the boundaries of what humanity thought was possible.
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In the clay-bricked alleys of ancient Mesopotamia, a city of beer, bureaucracy, and myth gave the world its first written word- and its first great story.
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In the beginning there was a great flood. Eridu was not built on conquest but on survival. After the flood, humans reshaped the desert with canals and clay, turning scarcity into storage, and floodplains into farms. It was here, in southern Mesopotamia, that the idea of civilization first took root.
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stay, alive in my head a little longer. stay, so that I may go on writing poems against forgetting. stay, so, I may keep on living fighting for surviving.
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For a brief window in time, Nepal didn’t just host the global counterculture- it shaped its myth. Kathmandu became a meeting point between ancient ritual and Western rebellion, between spiritual tradition and psychedelic experimentation. It wasn’t always harmonious, but it was undeniably transformative. Kathmandu offered something profoundly different- space to breathe, reflect, and heal.
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blue, something about you, woke up with thoughts of you, crossed my mind as the storms come through, chaos and calm, bliss and peace, starry nights, and northern lights, folded dreams, holy grails, loud laughs and little blushes, sunset hues- a little close/closer to blue, sweet loving hell- you get me through.
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The photo Wilkins showed Watson on the afternoon of January 30, 1953, is what we now know as ‘Photo 51’. Though it might seem ordinary now, many things were hidden within the ‘X’ shape and the ‘streaks’ visible in Rosalind’s ‘Photo 51’. Based on that ‘Photo 51’, Watson-Crick resumed their DNA structure research two days…
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If there is a creator of this universe, wouldn’t they belong to the whole cosmos, not just our tiny corner? In the grand scale of things, what are our prayers? Would this cosmic god be pleased with or endorse, what we’ve done in their name- wars, hatred, discrimination, and division?
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sunshine- in human form. knowing she exists, here. now. in this universe- somewhere, anywhere. too holy to touch, too human to forget. not to be held- to be known. and that knowing, softens me. my being. this joy- only a feeling, only for her being.
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now, it barely stands. weathering the weather, a far cry from the majesty it once bore.
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the sky- doesn’t beg to be noticed it stretches slow and wide like a secret finally told. one last dance before folding into the arms of dusk, one last twirl into dusk’s arms. sunsets- sometimes feel like the beginning of a goodbye, or perhaps it is the sun screaming not yet. not yet. not yet.
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we are here now, now, now. still fighting for becoming. time is- subjective sense of becoming We are only what we are. here, now- not what we were nanoseconds ago not what we were nanoseconds ago who gives a dam about ghosts from our pasts anymore? lets stop- being afraid of what’s here this ugly,…
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