A black man in California can expect to live 68.6 years on average, which is far below the life expectancy of the average California white male, who can expect to live 75.5 years. Despite the impressive gains in American longevity over the past century, significant disparities in life expectancies such as this one persist across racial and ethnic groups in California. These racial and ethnic di...

immortality and gaining eternal life are the man’s oldest desires. he extends these intra-desires on his champions of myths. champions of several myths and legends, experiment the eternal life differently, whiles death is the destiny of all. so, many believe that champions will be renewed after their symbolic death. yung looks on all champions’ lives as sun and assesses champions’ eternal retur...

The herbarium of Hans Sloane in the Natural History Museum’s Department of Botany is a cunning object: a book of colonial nature that contains ethnographic artefacts in the guise of natural specimens. The eight volumes of Sloane’s specimens from his Jamaican voyage of 1687–1689 hold both dried plants and sample foodstuffs, many together with the original drawings prepared for the engravings of ...

Membrane bilayers are essential elements of life, and the synthesis of the hydrocarbons that make up membrane bilayers may have preceded the appearance of life on Earth. Membrane-associated processes are significant components of metabolism, and the acyl composition of membrane bilayers is associated with metabolic activity in a predictable manner. This has resulted in the "membrane pacemaker" ...

Abstract The purpose of this article is twofold: first, I will reconstruct Mullā Ṣadrā's complex arguments for the soul's immortality based on its immaterial nature. Second and finally, briefly probe assess various epistemological metaphysical objections against immaterialist conception soul. Ṣadrā contends that our bodily death marks an awakening to reality consciousness plane imaginal realm (...