Riddle #81 – Obvious!

There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story

Stephen Hawking: ‘There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story’

A belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a “fairy story” for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
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“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark,” he added.

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Also read Hawking upsets a sophisticated rabbi, by Jerry Coyne

rats!

Cumulative Inflammatory Load Is Associated with Short Leukocyte Telomere Length in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study

Cumulative Inflammatory Load Is Associated with Short Leukocyte Telomere Length in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study

Aoife O’Donovan, Matthew S. Pantell, Eli Puterman, Firdaus S. Dhabhar, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Kristine Yaffe, Richard M. Cawthon, Patricia L. Opresko, Wen-Chi Hsueh, Suzanne Satterfield, Anne B. Newman, Hilsa N. Ayonayon, Susan M. Rubin, Tamara B. Harris, Elissa S. Epel

PLoS ONE 6(5): e19687. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019687

Gravity Defying Cat

Gliese 581d is the first discovered terrestrial-mass exoplanet in the habitable zone

Robin Wordsworth, François Forget, Franck Selsis, Ehouarn Millour, Benjamin Charnay, Jean-Baptiste Madeleine

arXiv:1105.1031v1 [astro-ph.EP]

Prends garde à ta langue

Après la première strophe je pensais déjà aux clergés divers et variables, puis la confirmation vient vers la fin

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Hum, hum mais regarde le glousser
Il tâte le terrain, divise pour mieux régner
Dans son habit de prêtre
Il clame le vrai dessein,
Te contrôle par tes peurs
Tu deviendras son chien

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You’ll turn to God – no kidding!

Islands Of Light

Body plan innovation in treehoppers through the evolution of an extra wing-like appendage

Body plan innovation in treehoppers through the evolution of an extra wing-like appendage

Benjamin Prud’homme, Caroline Minervino, Mélanie Hocine, Jessica D. Cande, Aïcha Aouane, Héloïse D. Dufour, Victoria A. Kassner & Nicolas Gompel

Nature 473, 83–86 (05 May 2011) doi:10.1038/nature09977

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