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First of all it is necessary to try to understand that the Chinese culture has it’s own representations, sometimes radically opposed to the concepts of other cultures. Taoism, and especially alchemy of immortality in Chinese traditions are well-known ever…

Some scientists argue that aging is a social construct, not a natural law — and therefore, we can challenge it. Scientists are looking at genetic editing and advances in artificial intelligence as possible means to prolong human life indefinitely.

Aging …

On April 7, 1844, Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon faith, delivered a sermon to twenty thousand of his followers in Nauvoo, Illinois. The immediate occasion was the funeral of King Follett, a close friend of Smith’s, and there is no doubt that deat…

Following a recent feature in The New Yorker magazine, which looks at silicon valley’s anti aging activities and explores the work and ideas of Aubrey de Grey (SENS repairing 7 kinds of aging related damage) and Ray Kurzweil (Singularity and uploading), t…

In Slavic folklore, this nature spirit is known as’ Koshchey the Deathless’ or ‘Koshchey the Immortal’ but it has also many other very similar names (Kashey, Koschei, Kostiy, Kościej) which vary from one Slavic culture to another.

Koshchey is the ruler o…