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Dead Sea not Deadly at All
The Dead Sea, by name alone, doesn't seem to be a place where you would want to spend any leisure time. Located near Amman, Jordan, the surface of the Dead Sea is over 1,300 feet below sea level. The very bottom of the sea, is over 2,300 feet below sea level, making it the lowest body of water on earth and the lowest point on earth. It is also the world's richest source of natural[...]
One Step Closer to Discovering the Fountain of Youth
Who wants to live forever? This question has been answered by an inconspicuous water creature who potentially does live forever. The Turritopsis nutricula (Immortal Jellyfish, to us) never dies naturally. It can do this because it can alter the state of a cell, transforming it into another cell[...]
Roadside Memorials
Motor vehicle accidents are not uncommon, and so the use of roadside memorials is on the rise to remember those who have died. But these memorial crosses haven't always been used to remember where people died, or how they died.The crosses take their origins from Hispanic culture of southwestern North America, where the roadside monuments are sometimes referred to as descansos, meaning[...]
A Contractual Hit on Death
Written near the end of the fourteenth century, The Canterbury Tales is a collection of Middle English stories by Geoffrey Chaucer about a diverse group of individuals of different social classes on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. During their travels, they tell tales of love and death, but most notably of them all, is the Pardoners Tale, which tells the story of three men who set out on a[...]
A True Friend Buries Incriminating Evidence
Every person should have one. You may have heard of them. They're our life-long friends - the person who stole the liquor from their parent's cabinet and got us embarrassingly drunk; they're the ones who ditched us at a party in the middle of nowhere to go home with someone they just met; they're our confidants, wingmen, best-friends, partners-in-crime, and sometimes, even our[...]
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