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Death and Immortality in Middle-earth (2017) edited by Daniel Helen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Book review by Amy Amendt-Raduege of Death and Immortality in Middle-earth (2017), edited by Daniel ...
Amendt-Raduege, Amy
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"Expectation" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Previously in Futures, I discussed a word that we use to form an abstract futures concept: “millennium” [1]. In its most common current usage, “millennium” is an example of a word that provides, and one might even say controls, a future orientation for ...
Junker, Kirk W.
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Feminism and Finitude

open access: yesTechnophany, 2023
This essay examines the ideological parallels between the transhuman pursuit for immortality and xenofeminism’s call for biological manipulation. Paying particular attention to the patriarchal legacy of technoscience, I identify eugenic principles ...
Alessandra Mularoni
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Age structure landscapes emerge from the equilibrium between aging and rejuvenation in bacterial populations. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The physiological asymmetry between daughters of a mother bacterium is produced by the inheritance of either old poles, carrying non-genetic damage, or newly synthesized poles.
Buetz, Christen   +4 more
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Considerable Life Extension versus Immortality

open access: yesNordicum-Mediterraneum, 2012
The ethical desirability of considerable life extension by medical technology has become an increasingly discussed topic in bioethics during recent years. Immortality can be seen as a maximum of life extension. Because of this, many authors use the term '
Rosa Rantanen
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“Little” Immortality: Immortological Theme in the Internet Microformats

open access: yesCorpus Mundi
This article correlates in content with the previous article in the journal. Internet microformats (short stories, gifs, pics, memes, demotivators, etc.) have a short life compared to “monumental” content, but are characterized by a high speed of ...
Artur A. Dydrov, Milena S. Vizgina
doaj   +1 more source

IMMORTALITAS ORANG SALEH DAN EKSPRESI KEYAKINAN ATAS KONSEP BERKAH

open access: yesAl-A'raf: Jurnal Pemikiran Islam dan Filsafat, 2020
This study aims to discuss the people's understanding of the immortality of pious people in the funeral complex of Lasem Jami's mosque and the values embodied in the surrounding community's daily lives. Based on the phenomenological approach, where data
Abdul Najib
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A psychological motif for the popularity of a myth about Endymion and the Ukrainian translations of the literary endymionade [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Рopularity of mythological plot about Endymion is investigated. The author researches different versions of the myth to discover their dominate motifs: “BEAUTY - LOVE – IMMORTALITY”, which explain psychological peculiarities for the popularity of myth
Фоміна, Людмила
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Universal Mortality Law, Life Expectancy and Immortality

open access: yes, 2004
Well protected human and laboratory animal populations with abundant resources are evolutionary unprecedented, and their survival far beyond reproductive age may be a byproduct rather than tool of evolution.
Arantes-Oliveira   +24 more
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Waking up from transhumanist dreams: reframing cancer in an evolving universe

open access: yesScientia et Fides, 2019
Technological dystopias incarnate transhumanist dreams of a this-worldly blissful immortality. Underlying these and others is a globalized technocratic paradigm, the loss of an overarching cosmic world view, rise in consumerism, a gnostic repudiation of ...
Geoffrey Woollard
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