Tag: Survive

A month or so after the world-renowned composer Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away, an advertisement grabbed my attention on Instagram. It was a photo of him dressed in a tux, his gray hair neatly separated and his piercing eyes staring at the camera behind the tortoiseshell-framed glasses. Across his ...

WARNING: The following article contains links to videos with very traumatic and upsetting content, not the kind of thing you really want to watch unless you are particularly morbid. Where does morbid curiosity come from anyway? Why do all the cars slow down when there’s a flaming acciden...

These two migratory parrot species are the orange-bellied parrot, Neophema chrysogaster, and the swift parrot, Lathamus discolor, both of which are listed as critically Endangered species (mainly due to the Australians’ passion for clearcutting these parrots’ native nest trees ...

Do you think you have what it takes to survive? Imagine this scenario: You are lost in the bush, it’s starting to get dark, you have no food, no water and have hurt your ankle. Morale is low, your phone is dead and there’s no reception out here anyway. What would you do to survive the ni...

According to Levitsky and Ziblatt, institutional restraint is one of the most fundamental norms of a democratic society. This has been largely true throughout America’s history. Different parts of government don’t always exercise the full extent of their powers as they fight partisan bat...

To a creature that only lives for a few decades — less than a millionth of a percent of the Universe’s total age — a star is so long-lived that it may as well survive forever. Despite the fact that there are hundreds of billions of stars within our Milky Way alone, most of the huma...

Ahibernating ground squirrel wouldn’t look like much, even if you could spot it. But curled into furry balls from October to April, these pint-sized mammals have genetic adaptations that could be applied to next-generation therapeutics for humans. When ground squirrels hibernate, which they...

Ahibernating ground squirrel wouldn’t look like much, even if you could spot it. But curled into furry balls from October to April, these pint-sized mammals have genetic adaptations that could be applied to next-generation therapeutics for humans. When ground squirrels hibernate, which they...

Soviet literary history is notorious for its bloody purges, in which entire categories of intellectuals were erased from history. Yet compared to the purges of Georgian poets during 1921 and 1931, the Great Purge of 1937 was extreme, due to the number of the poets who were executed, as well as the a...