You may remember the 1998 movie The Truman Show (eg, IMDb), in which Jim Carrey lives in a village observed by cameras and unknowingly features in a reality TV show. Some scientists argue that humans may also live in a virtual reality, like The Matrix (eg, IMDb). Perhaps, you may already have wondered whether you are just a pawn in a game by the Gods. I must admit...
In my recent 2016 blog, I referred to a 2015 National Geographic article in which Iris Schrijver, professor of pathology at Stanford University, and her husband and astrophysicist Karel Schrijver talk about their new book "Living With the Stars: How the Human Body Is Connected to the Life Cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and the Stars" (Amazon). In particular, I...
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