" They would say, "I'm not talking about immortality, nobody's talking about immortality.
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While as humans, we often consciously or unconsciously hope to achieve immortality, immortality has a very real existence in the cellular world — it's called cancer.
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The peach symbolizes immortality in China and, along with the Sino-American kitsch of a pair of appended fortune cookies, suggests a judgment on that immortality.
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One of the proposed solutions to achieve immortality comes from Ray Kurzweil, who believes that we can transfer our consciousness to machines to achieve digital immortality within three decades.
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The horcruxes were objects that allowed Voldemort to maintain immortality.
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But no one can just will themselves into magical immortality.
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Perhaps an artist's desire for immortality doesn't seem so surprising.
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In a way we are convinced of these leaders' immortality.
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It's actually an "elixir of immortality" concocted during ancient times.
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What's stardom in Oklahoma City next to immortality, after all?
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He felt the glow of sporting immortality wash over him.
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After all, the race for immortality has a wide field.
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Shields, immortality fields, and bullets were flying in both directions.
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Mayakovsky wrote the canonical poem on Lenin's death and immortality.
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Dante put Epicureans in hell for denying the soul's immortality.
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Sarah found that about as appealing as the water of immortality.
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Ambrosia shares its name with the mythical food associated with immortality.
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As for whether immortality is on the horizon, Lansdorp is skeptical.
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I have not taken a dollar, outside of the Immortality Bus.
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You could achieve immortality, too—just like the good Bishop Bicherod.
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So why not commemorate the feat of immortality with some ink?
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Related: Has the First Person to Achieve Immortality Already Been Born?
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Time travel, teleportation and immortality will soon be within our reach.
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Among them were the "Incarnations of Immortality" series by Piers Anthony.
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Strix's powers include immortality, quick healing, and superhuman strength and stamina.
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The immortality campaign would appear to be yet another, though futuristic.
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This inclusion implies that chasing creation and immortality is a foolhardy mission.
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Gocker's rejection of corporate-driven attempts for immortality is an analogous move.
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It also means Streep has double the memes for double the immortality.
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Mariah Carey is the closest that humankind has gotten to achieving immortality.
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The second were svytagors, whose pink blood was an elixir of immortality.
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But it's not that we're all going to have access to immortality.
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Immortality "is not a dream entertained by many serious scientists," he said.
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We've been yearning for immortality at least since the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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That's when he published his cryonics magnum opus, The Prospect of Immortality.
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It has an immortality, in the way the very best songs do.
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Filthy Rich bad boy Dan Bilzarian reveals the keys to Instagram immortality.
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That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality.
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That's my feeling about this growing industry of [trying to achieve] immortality.
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And then there is Johnson, 41, who is going for Nascar immortality.
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People crave immortality; our re-embodiment in machines will make that possible.
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He will get the immortality of being perfectly preserved on a shelf.
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It isn't glorious conquest or love that accords immortality to the honorable.
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She wishes to gain immortality, but finds herself unable to do so.
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Immortality is a banal given in the novels, it's a hard fact.
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"So although future electronic immortality has the advantage of offering a pretty attractive version of immortality at first glance, closer reading of the 100 page T&Cs may well reveal some nasties," Dr. Pearson penned in the post.
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Then, she said she came across Ettinger's 1964 book, The Prospect of Immortality.
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Andreux insists that immortality isn't their focus, as exciting as it may seem.
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And that immortality came in the form of charitable trusts that lasted forever.
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So in a way, we are holding on to a moment of immortality.
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Immortality — that's what happens to songwriters and hitmakers who know what they're doing.
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"I'm afraid his obsession with immortality has overcome his artistic instincts," Clarke wrote.
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This, he thinks, is the way to immortality, or a reasonable approximation thereof.
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Most researchers in the field scoff at talk of escape velocities and immortality.
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"Immortality' may prove the most interesting secular theme in the 2020s," Israel said.
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You could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so it's not immortality. Right.
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Westworld is not just in the entertainment business; they're trying to master immortality.
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" –at the beginning of Dream Master to convey his immortality "I am forever.
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But industrial monopolies are nothing new along the cutthroat path to artistic immortality.
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I know immortality isn't celebrity and so therefore I do not seek it.
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And in the dying seconds, Martínez raced clear, his place in immortality waiting.
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In the first story Ovid begs to trade "anything, everything" for literary immortality.
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More than a century ago, a grasshopper found its way to art immortality.
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It destroys the meaning of immortality by making both society and history impossible.
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The beauty in both projects is how they test the idea of immortality.
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They again tasted immortality, winning back-to-back titles in 2009 and 2010.
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And why stop at surviving the apocalypse when you can shoot for immortality?
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Istvan and I were downing the last of the Immortality Bus's booze stash.
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The search for cellular immortality Yet even telomeres do not have eternal life.
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" The book is pure Dada, and as Twain writes, "its immortality is secure.
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"Immortality may prove the most interesting secular theme in the 2020s," BofA predicts.
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Yet Dondi attained a measure of immortality as a master of ephemeral art.
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" His upcoming book is "Heavens on Earth: The Quest for Immortality and Perfectibility.
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So, you're gonna work 365 ... I thought tech was gonna deliver me immortality.
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Do you feel like that immortality only applies to the most famous artists?
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Bulls represented the spirit of immortality, Conrad wrote, and were worshiped in elaborate ways.
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But if you really want immortality, he adds, "do something meaningful with your life".
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Of course, the hyper-powerful would only spend their billions in search of immortality.
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He translated Robert Ettinger's 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality into Russian in 2003.
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They have "open-ended lifespans," and immortality, as ever, is not to be trusted.
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There are very few moments in Kim Kardashian's life that aren't captured for immortality.
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First things first: How good do you think my odds are for achieving immortality?
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Bram Stoker's immortality is proving more unpierceable than that of his bloodthirsty creation, Dracula.
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Eos has the hots for Tithonus, so she asked Zeus to grant Tithonus immortality.
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Sometimes an onstage mishap produces a single sentence that deserves a measure of immortality.
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It took only 20 seconds for Clyde Stubblefield to drum his way to immortality.
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Feature Zoltan Istvan ran for president with a modest goal in mind: human immortality.
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The Eternals' powers include near-immortality, flight, energy projection, molecular manipulation, and super strength.
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It wasn't the hope of immortality that goaded me to write: It was obsession.
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Open Book "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work," Woody Allen once said.
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The so-called "elixir of immortality" and the bronze pot within which is was found.
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Seekers of immortality are saddled with the body, the physical brain, the fact of entropy.
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"Peacocks represent infinity, and immortality, and all-knowingness," Ventiko told the LA Times in March .
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Turchin and Trapeznikov have recently spun their experiments into a company, Digital Immortality Now (DIN).
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See more photos from The Prospect of Immortality below: Catstat, Cryonics Institute, Clinton Township, Michigan.
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The judge condemned prizefighting and those would who participate in such a spectacle of immortality.
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I don't go into the socioeconomic implications of immortality all that much in the book.
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The rise of portrait photography made immortality of a new kind available to ordinary people.
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Bram Stoker's immortality is proving more difficult to pierce than that of his bloodthirsty creation.
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To have a child was perhaps a means of capturing that immortality I had lost.
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But it was Foolish Pleasure who brought Mr. Jolley his first measure of track immortality.
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He starts "The Riddle of the Sphinx" as the Creator, experimenting in a synthetic immortality.
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Suicide bombing involves a form of immortality seeking that has religion deep in its roots.
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Ambrosia, in Greek mythology, is the food or drink of the gods and confers immortality.
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THE FUTURE OF HUMANITYTerraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond EarthBy Michio KakuIllustrated.
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I heard the hollow slam of the Immortality Bus's door, and Istvan calling my name.
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Horn's elegant novel explores how Rachel's immortality impedes her ability to be fully, truly alive.
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"I always think that the act of creation is your fight for immortality," Owens says.
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Legendary choreographer Yvonne Rainer, immortality, experimental ethics, and New Internationalism are highlights of upcoming events.
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Another track, "City on the Edge of Forever," deals with Silicon Valley's obsession with immortality.
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Tuesday, February 19, 7 pm Art and Immortality with Anton Vidokle and Xiaoyu Weng Guggenheim curator Xiaoyu Weng speaks with artist and e-flux founder Anton Vidokle about his research and films on Russian Cosmism and the theme of her forthcoming Ural Industrial Biennial, Immortality.
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Turns out, it's what humans have been after for as long as we've been around: immortality.
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Some of these robber barons were willing to spread their wealth around — in exchange for immortality.
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The unproduced film focused on a number of scifi elements, including human cloning, immortality, and eugenics.
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And there's the wealthy ones whose immortality stasis crypts opened on the death of their originals.
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It has variously represented cosmic balance, the root of all music, and the key to immortality.
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It dictates whether you are destined to elevate into glorious immortality, or fade dejectedly into irrelevance.
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" –in Freddy's Dead to again convey his immortality "You've got their powers, I've got their souls.
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But it's also because the suicide of the heroine, Hannah, succeeds in winning her popular immortality.
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I confess immortality, whose attainment is a hot theme in Silicon Valley, does not interest me.
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I recently spoke at the Church of Perpetual Life while on tour with my Immortality Bus.
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Like Zeno, she is obsessed with immortality; she takes baths in potions designed to prolong life.
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He completed a valedictory round of handshakes, and then we boarded the Immortality Bus once more.
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And here is where religion, mankind's primary search for immortality and the afterlife, enters the picture.
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In any case, it's pretty safe to say the whole "immortality" thing was something of an oversell.
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Accordingly, the themes covered on Afterlife range from BDSM and immortality to interrogations of Australia's colonial history.
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By that standard, even a trillion-dollar vote of confidence now hardly portends business immortality for Apple.
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Ours isn't the frantic sex of migratory birds, desperate to achieve immortality through the transfer of DNA.
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Walker opened their conversation with a strange question involving a deadly snail, a million dollars, and immortality.
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In all likelihood, the Retrievers will have to content themselves with one lone night of basketball immortality.
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Soon, the rich will extend their lifespans by purchasing immortality credits in a cap-and-trade system.
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I didn't realize that what I needed was not eternity but freedom from the story of immortality.
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Humans have long been trying to achieve immortality, or at least live for 100 years and beyond.
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He also has an interest in anti-aging products and has spoken of "immortality" as a possibility.
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Through their lives -- and though their lives were cut short, in their deeds they achieved total immortality.
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This is achieved through the incorporation of various messages signaling such things as immense wealth and immortality.
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Almost as good is enshrinement in the Library of America, the closest thing to immortality between hardcovers.
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But that didn't mean the end of the idea — there's a lot of business potential in immortality.
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According to RocketNews24, The Amrita, which is Sanskrit for "the immortality," won't even really be that naked.
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One of the frequent complaints when theorizing about possible immortality on earth is that of constant boredom.
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Through their lives, and though their lives were cut short, in their deeds they achieved total immortality.
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Show notes offered the claim that it had something to do with making a bid for immortality.
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But music teachers enjoy an almost genealogical immortality through their students, regardless of those pupils' later fame.
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HEAVENS ON EARTH The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia By Michael Shermer 320 pp.
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Through their lives — and though their lives were cut short, in their deeds they achieved total immortality.
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He aimed for universal knowledge, available to all humankind, with a serious play for personal immortality thrown in.
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Outside of crowdfunding my Immortality Bus, I have not taken a penny in donations for my presidential campaign.
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His life represented the immortality that could only be earned through transitioning from this existence to the next.
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Playlist: "Sober" / "Flood" / "Hush" / "The Grudge" / "Jambi" / "Hooker With A Penis" After three albums, Tool aimed for immortality.
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" She's referring to the mysterious structure hidden in The Valley Beyond, which she calls his "pursuit for immortality.
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It was in the spreading of beauty that he knew he would find that little breeze of immortality.
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"Now she's got this sense of power and also a sense of immortality," Clapton told me in 2015.
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Then they add a cabal of superhuman evildoers with a diabolical and utterly incomprehensible plan to achieve immortality.
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But the focus on immortality and anti-aging probably distracts from some of the more important, accessible stuff.
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Despite much satirical hyperbole, real and disturbing questions emerge about how scientific advances exacerbate our yearning for immortality.
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It's an old trick poets play: if we're reading these lines "after the poem," Ritvo gets his immortality.
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Peter Thiel's venture fund just announced Hereticon, a conference for "troublemakers" to discuss immortality, doomsday prepping, and UFOs.
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And it's no wonder a Silicon Valley venture capitalist with a known obsession with immortality has taken notice.
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If Dylan deals in philosophy, The Stones in immortality, and Neil Young in authenticity, McCartney deals in hope.
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For Henry, Vieira and Bergkamp and especially, failure in Serie A was the prelude to Premier League immortality.
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"Altered Carbon" has some interesting ideas about the wages of immortality, such as the possibility of endless torture.
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Those concerns were magnified by her cancer, which became her "flood subject," as Emily Dickinson referred to immortality.
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Where Atomic Kitten, The Saturdays, and B*Witched sink further into their graves, "Wannabe" ascends closer toward immortality.
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Dr. Phillip Snyder wants his medical center to pursue "immortality"; his wife had more limited and humane motivations.
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Over the decades, however, she has earned an ample measure of immortality through her music and in film.
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Plagueis was Palpatine's master who he claimed learned the path to immortality and could stop people from dying.
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But there were others from Barkley's era who prodded and provoked many along the path to collective immortality.
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The reader watches her wrestle with her immortality, magical powers, and eventually with the impossible love of motherhood.
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Srinivasan is one of a cadre of venture capitalists recruited by fellow immortality enthusiast Peter Thiel to advise Trump.
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Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)Immortality may be a gift reserved only for the mole rats of the world.
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Some animals and plants, like species of jellyfish, tortoises, and trees, seem to have a sort of biological immortality.
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For those of you thinking this is a path towards immortality, you may be in for a profound disappointment.
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Upon being resurrected, this is what ultimately drives her thirst for immortality and destroying the rest of the world.
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VICE News explored the world of modern-day lifespan hacking and whether or not science can actually engineer immortality.
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She quizzes him about the immortality project, specifically how they managed to collect information about the guests' internal states.
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But there were also moments so absurd that they transcended mere farce to enjoy a kind of comic immortality.
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The new series gives off a vibe similar to the myth of Sisyphus, battling tedium and also cursed immortality.
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Being scripted as champion grants wrestlers some measure of immortality, just like a statistical note in any straightforward sport.
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On bass-rich electronic music albums like The Glitch Mob's Love Death Immortality, the PM3 performs faithfully but forgettably.
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But while the people, the stores, and the apartment values have changed, that corner has a kind of immortality.
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Post-war expansions are longer (and recessions shorter) than was once the case, but business-cycle immortality remains elusive.
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When Sara looked up what the striking bird symbolizes, the answers scrolled back, catching her breath: renewal, resurrection, immortality.
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And they just opened a new exhibition that uses taxidermy to explore the links between art, science and immortality.
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Marissa Nadler will not stop for death, even if she's left alone with only herself and immortality for company.
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" –in Dream Master to once more convey his immortality and job credentials "The souls of children give me strength.
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The idea that I have a little piece of immortality means that the rest of life is just gravy.
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Which is to say that becoming the nation's leading retailer does not guarantee immortality, at least not beyond architecture.
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The Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert fantasy film "Highlander" followed a Scottish Highlands warrior who is cursed with immortality.
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Rio, however clunky her book's characters and plotting can sometimes be, captures that, the exhilarating dummy immortality of youth.
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But, at the moment, our immortality options are limited to cryogenic freezing, vampirism, and really, really good gut bacteria.
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This barrier leads Kaku to consider the ways humans might alter their own design to achieve approximations of immortality.
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One may think this is a long way of saying that poets attain immortality through virtue of their reputations.
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The sixteenth-century Mogul emperor Akbar called it "the water of immortality," and insisted on serving it at court.
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He has channeled his immense wealth into projects that promise total surveillance of everyone and immortality for the superrich.
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The film reveals Hela's origin story as Odin's firstborn, a status that gives her immense power and seeming immortality.
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In his opinion, that put him on the same plane as the Engineer, and gave him the right to immortality.
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Thus is born the work that will guarantee his immortality, as well as theater's most enduring portrait of arrested development.
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But the promise of immortality can cheapen life, particularly if it comes in two seemingly identical forms — host and human.
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This is the supposed irony of situating high-tech immortality schemes in an ancient land thick with ghosts and nations.
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Diana Prince, to star in her own story that explores Amazons, immortality, World War I, and the evils of man.
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Later in "Reunion," James Delos hints that the goal might be for some sort of Altered Carbon-esque immortality project.
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I have a four-foot interactive Meccanoid robot aboard my Immortality Bus, which I've occasionally used for my presidential campaign.
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For Hefner, this was an opportunity to leverage the silence of the grave for the thrill of pop-culture immortality.
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Now the humans want to swap out their own failure-prone bodies for the malleable hardware that can grant immortality.
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In 1897, William James, the celebrity philosopher, was offered $400 to lecture at Harvard on the quaint subject of immortality.
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According to Harry Potter, unicorn blood is said to grant immortality so maybe that's why this trend just won't die.
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A quest for immortality may be the ultimate example of overpromising and under-delivering, but it will still deliver something.
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What to make of the personal archives, the private universes, the physical stabs at permanence and immortality that collectors create?
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"The first night, we asked ourselves what we would do if we were a virus bent on immortality," he said.
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In a recent New Republic article , Anna Wiener posed the question of why immortality is suddenly such a booming business.
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Capturing such intimate longing and pain in his poems secured for Li the immortality denied him by politics and religion.
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The park has been closely monitoring its human players, including gathering their DNA, as a part of the immortality project.
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"The Infinity Engine" (2014–2017), an immersive installation highlighting the current state of bioengineering, outlines the scientific quest for immortality.
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Perhaps it takes the promise of immortality to inspire the self-absorbed to invest in unsexy work like Alzheimer's research.
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A progressive who believes history is more or less linear is fighting for immortality when he enters the political arena.
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She feels that she's only enabled a system that allows the rich to accumulate power as they deepen their immortality.
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It exists in our world and the idea that removing a technology that enables immortality would change that is naive.
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The "tea of immortality" has come a long way from its reported beginning in China more than 2,000 years ago.
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Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.
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So let's say everyone was just real chill and meditative and lived in the moment because immortality is a given.
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His claim to immortality looks like an open-and-shut-case: Pete Shelley was a musical genius hiding in plain sight.
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Alternatively, Delos could also offer immortality à la Altered Carbon to anyone willing to pay up (and risk potential cognitive plateaus).
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Within God of War, Baldur's immortality and inability to feel are explained in the context of a larger bit of lore.
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In the future, it wouldn't merely sell tickets to its savage amusement parks, its product list would come to include immortality.
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In Greek mythology, Zeus grants Eos's mortal lover Tithonus immortality—but the goddess forgets to ask for eternal youth as well.
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It's a form of immortality, just a kind of rubbish one and it comes with no garish gold belt or money.
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The Dome Dwellers eat special immortality apples, farmed by lower classes dependent on the elites for water rations and other resources.
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So much life springs from all this death that to spend time in the November woods is also to contemplate immortality.
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They say money can't buy happiness, but perhaps it can buy immortality — or at least, a longer lifespan than most people.
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Phil Mickelson, whom he was grouped with, had a golf ball just off the fairway and a shot at golf immortality.
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All of them are leftovers, and each of them retains a bit of immortality in the wake of the God's presence.
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In his reflective unselfconsciousness, he seems to put on the bardic mantle of Walt Whitman, while deflating any pretence of immortality.
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That voice of his—which people now have called the father of ASMR videos—is just one secret to his immortality.
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The suffusion of heavenly light that bathes the revered figure makes clear that, after his death, he is destined for immortality.
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The life span of plants is highly variable; some trees, for example, achieve what looks like immortality in comparison with animals.
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For much of history, we denied the reality of death through faith in the immortality of the body or the soul.
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An artist this great gets something close to immortality—these aren't the first and won't be the last testaments to him.
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To win a championship is the only sure way to win power and love, and even a sort of offhand immortality.
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Digital immortality: How your life's data means a version of you could live forever by Courtney Humphries in MIT Tech Review.
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A drink made from soma-haoma bestowed alertness, strength, virility, insight, healing, and even immortality when it was drunk in ritual settings.
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That's why we want to protect our identities and group identities too, be it religion or otherwise–for that promise of immortality.
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Everyone from scholars, religions, and philosophers to kings and queens have been searching for and describing literal immortality for thousands of years.
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And if we take William's "end" to mean his death, then it makes sense that his journey to immortality would begin then.
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The combustible Mr. Ironside vaulted into movie immortality as the antagonist in "Scanners," David Cronenberg's down-and-dirty, exploding-head anti-classic.
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According to HaxDogma, Dolores sees the Valley Beyond as a place for hosts to "enhance" themselves and stop humans from achieving immortality.
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Was he lashing out because he'd failed at life, or did he see his killing spree as a way of attaining immortality?
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So, when asked if there was any person she's worked with who she'd want to join her in immortality, Barrymore chose Diaz.
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The only way to know for sure whether the concoction really confers immortality will be to test it on a human subject.
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With the hype building up for the race, here are five things to know about Justify and his bid for racing immortality.
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Homeric in its crudity, in its liberating simplicity, it transcends epochs and borders, attaining a perverse immortality by its sheer, unrelenting evil.
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He wants to live forever When asked when he will retire from Huawei, 74-year-old Ren made a crack about immortality.
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On a recent morning, to underscore the immortality of inequality, he stood in the black cemetery and pointed to the white cemetery.
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People have thought for thousands of years that the springs and water found there, called the "waters of immortality," had healing properties.
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Immortality is the one true goal of art and of humanity; to create something that will outlast one's physical and mental existence.
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His immortality is a not a fluke—it is the result of very specific actions Ross himself took while he was alive.
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Three gold funerary masks — from ancient China, Peru and Syria — suggest a widely shared association of precious materials with immortality and remembrance.
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She was so assured in her youth and immortality, even as news of the virus was slowly trickling into the United States.
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For suffering this ordeal, Uta-napishti and his wife were granted immortality, but, he suggests, no one but they can live forever.
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We know such solutions all too well: ambitious city-planning schemes and robotics as well as dreams of cosmic expansion and immortality.
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Media is the closest humans have come to achieving immortality, with biopics and documentaries that can and often do outlive their subjects.
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And basketball immortality awaits the savior who can finally overcome the Dolan factor and drag the franchise back into the league's elite.
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Knowing that Plagueis was Palpatine's master, it's insinuated Palpatine also found a way to keep himself alive on his quest for immortality.
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One year after failing to stick the landing, the Warriors have their chance at a different—but still important—version of immortality.
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The thinking goes that Tollund Man's tomb may have been meant to ensure a kind of soggy immortality for the sacrificial object.
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Bernadeane began her pursuit of immortality 60-odd years ago, the moment she heard the evangelical minister O.L. Jaggers on her car radio.
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If we don't seek the bottom â€" the answers, immortality, control â€" then perhaps we are free to enjoy what's in the middle.
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The game emphasizes immortality and "resleeving"—that is, copying or uploading your mind/consciousness and downloading it into a new morph, or body.
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A torrent of money is already flowing into data centres, software, new headquarters and "moon shots" such as driverless cars and immortality drugs.
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As George Saintsbury argued back in 1906, there was a kind a doggerel that could achieve for its creator a form of immortality.
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Iconic, I-was-there sports moments are amplified and given immortality by the sound of a great sports announcer lost in the moment.
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It's a common fantasy trope to have a formerly godlike character suddenly find themselves humbled by losing their immortality or other special powers.
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Recently, Murray's endeavors—which took him around the UK, US, and Russia—were published as a book, The Prospect of Immortality, by GOST.
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Through Refsdal's camera, we get an unfettered insight into the mindset of these men as they teeter on the cusp of sweet immortality.
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Semele, who desires immortality, is eventually tricked by Juno (disguised as Ino) into demanding that Jupiter appear to her in his godly form.
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Elpenor's desire for his story to outlive him highlights the human desire to achieve some mark of the immortality reserved for the gods.
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There was no way the Cavaliers could escape from the wreckage of this series and slow the Golden State Warriors' march to immortality.
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For though humanity aspires to achieve immortality, our cells teach us that a life without death is the most unnatural fate of all.
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While cheese may be, as the legendary editor Clifton Fadiman called it, "milk's leap toward immortality," here it is death on a plate.
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It guaranteed, in effect, a form of immortality; even Ferguson, relentlessly focused on what tomorrow might bring, forever scornful of yesterday, recognized that.
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WAITITI Humans are so [expletive] stupid and boring and lazy, that given the gift of immortality, you'd never get around to doing anything.
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For Evans, after a banner career and service above and beyond the call, a fight at MSG would mean a shot at immortality.
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Like other transhumanists who have envisioned immortality, Fyodorov speculated about ways to extend lifespans indefinitely, but he also took the premise a lot farther.
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She somehow outlasted the expiry of the sex symbols of yesteryear, indulging in the immortality of her very literal and extensive body of work.
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Is its promise of immortality a scam that draws in wishful thinkers, or is it actually possible that one day, humans might conquer death?
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move.
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The pickup truck emoji—which made it past the "provisional" round and is currently on the cusp of Unicode immortality—was masterminded by Ford.
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Bina48 still has some social glitches, but she's a working proof of concept—the firm's almost-charming poster girl for the techno-immortality movement.
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However, by the time it is predicted we achieve digital immortality, it is also likely that we would have developed human-like artificial intelligence.
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In a world where the rich and elite can have their consciousness transferred to other bodies, essentially granting immortality, a billionaire has been murdered.
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Reincarnation is a kind of immortality where I'll keep crawling out of hell and back to the card table to play another hand forever.
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Greater longevity is within reach—even if actual immortality may not be as close (or as interesting) as some fantasists would like to believe.
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He saw his work, too, as a refinement of matter, which explains why the surest path to immortality might pass through adding-machine tape.
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Starting with Bram Stoker's Dracula and culminating in the "Twilight" franchise, vampires have been depicted as aristocratic and wealthy -- immortality is expensive, after all.
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A window pops up—barely heading off an existential crisis about the futility of writing—and asks me to click Enact on Biological Immortality.
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I'm in my early 30s now, and I have friends that are dealing with the immortality of their parents in a very real way.
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He's still trying to stop Protectorate from making immortality available only to the rich elite, known as "Meths," the top 1% of the 1%.
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THE BREAKDOWN: Rick takes Jerry on an adventure to a resort with an immortality field, where locals ask Jerry to help them kill Rick.
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Specifically, she wanted to discuss the issue of digital immortality: is it right for people's social media profiles to live on when they die?
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Spieth took a good run at golfing immortality that summer, finishing tied for fourth at the British Open and second at the P.G.A. Championship.
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If work progresses slowly, some also plan to freeze themselves, with instructions to reawaken them once science has finished paving the way to immortality.
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This limitation may be most manifest in O'Connell's failure to mention one of the most disturbing aspects of this immortality mania: its utter selfishness.
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Chang'e-4 was named for a goddess in Chinese mythology, who lives on the moon for reasons connected to her husband's problematic immortality drink.
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Instead, "Watchmen" leaves us at the electric moment of transformation — the precise instant when foot meets water, flesh meets the elemental, mortality meets immortality.
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The Great Pyramid, also known as Khufu's pyramid, was built around 2560 BC to ensure the immortality of the Pharaoh Khufu after his death.
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The "History of Immortality" shows human society around where we'd expect it to be, pre-Altered Carbon; We continue to ask if death is inevitable.
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And when Woody gets a chance to attain immortality thanks to a toy collector, he's seriously tempted, only to be reminded of his true calling.
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The deal granted him immortality in exchange for his service, but he could only spend one day on land for every 10 years of service.
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But five "heretics" among them who had "darker intentions" wanted to harness chi to create immortality, and those five went on to form The Hand.
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Gao accuses her of being afraid of dying; she, Murakami, and Bakuto seem to think she's more concerned with immortality than with their original plan.
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By the time the 29-year-old Williams expired on a snowy road somewhere in Appalachia, he had blazed his way into country music immortality.
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It turns out that there's more to the killer's murders than she thought, and some shadowy figure is still out there trying to achieve immortality.
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Hercules (1997) Depending on how you look at it, having to fight a series of terrifying monsters is a low price to pay for immortality.
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But the show seems basically uninterested in the implications of body-swapping and immortality, unless it directly affects Kovacs' journey, or advances simplistic social commentary.
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The Platinum plan costs $10,000 and ensures the company will keep up to six samples of your swimmers indefinitely, affording your genetic material practical immortality.
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It can create the idea that suicide will lead to a kind of popular immortality, and that sometimes it's the best solution to a problem.
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The failed attempts to rebuild Jim Delos (Peter Mullan) and Robert Ford's (Anthony Hopkins) reincarnation as a brain sprite proved Delos' immortality project had failed.
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We picture a future of equestrian statue biodiversity in which bronze trailblazers ride toward immortality atop camels, cows, komodo dragons, and, why not, giant fish.
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Pop star and bonafide Japanophile Ariana Grande has achieved a type of immortality: She's going to be a guest character in a Final Fantasy game.
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It will be the only time Justify, or any of those lined up to try to stop his run to immortality, ever races that far.
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A lot of them embrace celebrity too; Chris Cornell earned immortality, and the world will be quieter, and a little duller, without him in it.
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The promise of a deathless future at the heart of cryonics research presumes that immortality may be achieved by uploading our neural structures into machines.
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It feels indulgent to fantasize about a future in which humanity is optimized for immortality; it feels indulgent to fantasize about a future at all.
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Trek is about the cockiness and perceived immortality of youth, Into Darkness is about growing up and learning from setbacks, and Beyond is about teamwork.
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The book writers Claudia Shear and Tim Federle, the composer Chris Miller, the lyricist Nathan Tysen and the director Casey Nicholaw bid for Broadway immortality.
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For Turchin, digital immortality—creating a conscious, virtual duplicate of our minds that could outlive us—is only the third-best way to become immortal.
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I believe there's always been an obsession with immortality, and we always find some story to tell ourselves that it's going to be possible eventually.
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Nobody in the building knows how good they can be, but shades of the night still feel like a pitstop on their way to immortality.
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But the subject matter — an unabashed celebration of erotic desire and dreams of immortality, and a story of adulterous love — was hardly suitable for Lent.
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" At the same time, as her aging father began to "smell his obituaries," wine provided him a kind of immortality: "His pompadour would turn white.
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The hubris of Delos's quest for immortality is turned deliciously against her: "You wanted to live forever," says Dolores-as-Charlotte to Charlotte, gun raised.
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At the end of "Beim Schlafengehen," as she sings of a "soul unwatched" soar into immortality, her voice lights the sky with defiant, unbounded joy.
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The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pot containing the nectar of immortality from demons.
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Flamel's work led him to create the Elixir of Life and achieve immortality, which he forsakes by the end of the first Harry Potter book.
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Adolescence is fraught with dangers, not the least of which are teenagers' assumptions of their own immortality — how could anything stop such vibrant corporeal glory?
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I admit I was a bit taken aback by Shermer's cavalier dismissal of one of the most long-lasting quests for immortality of them all.
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Moreover, I'm convinced that the "Berlusconi's comeback" actually never existed in the first place, it was only the usual media story about Berlusconi's political immortality.
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The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, was obsessed with finding a potion for immortality, and commissioned multiple nationwide army expeditions to find an elixir.
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When a big reveal at the end of the episode alludes to the inherent immortality of the elite, it's Angelique who comes through with the truth.
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"We are fighting against involuntary death, and view immortality as the ultimate solution to every problem mankind faces," said Bill Faloon, one of the church's founders.
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A surprising number were built at the behest of women, including princesses, courtesans and merchants' wives, who wished to attain immortality through the gift of water.
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The only thing that gives vampires a run for their money when it comes to immortality is the unrelenting love for films and shows about them.
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But where Johns is more invested in formalism, Gocker fuses formalist concerns with an interrogation of a large cultural phenomenon, like Big Tech's quest for immortality.
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BUY THE BOOK I'm Keith Hernandez Now, with a striking mix of candor and self-reflection, Hernandez takes us along on his journey to baseball immortality.
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Immortality is finally attainable—for the very wealthy, at least—thanks to AI tech that can download a person's consciousness and memories to a new body.
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Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson dazzled his way into college football immortality by passing for 420 yards and three touchdowns while running for another score Monday night.
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The quandary confronting Bay Area sports fans Monday night: Watch San Jose's first Stanley Cup finals game, or the Golden State Warriors' pursuit of basketball immortality?
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The desire for immortality has been around for millennia — the Philosopher's Stone, Faust, endless searches for mythical fountains of youth and snake oil of all varieties.
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"I told him that the moment that you do that, I believe that you will step into political immortality," the news site quoted Hagee as saying.
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At Real Madrid, Ronaldo's winning the club's 10th (and 11th) Champions League title or its umpteenth Spanish league title does not come with a similar immortality.
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Twenty burgers meant two things: immortality by way of his name on a plaque above the door and also not having to pay for 221 burgers.
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Norwegians regularly stop Bra, now 66, to ask about those event-filled minutes, which he didn't realize, at least initially, would become his vehicle to immortality.
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The money was enough to enable him to quit his job and to dedicate himself to the possibility, and the necessity, of achieving immortality through science.
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What do you say to those who see this as a quixotic quest for immortality, just the latest example of humanity trying to transcend its condition?
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Manson paid close attention to Scientology and drew upon its emotional manipulation of followers with the idea of immortality and purging the self of past trauma.
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A 1992 hip-hop song, "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta," found immortality on the soundtrack of the cult-favorite film "Office Space" in 1999.
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In a fascinating featurette preparing for the premiere of Netflix's Altered Carbon, experts and influencers speak about humankind's history of chasing immortality and continued strides toward it.
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WIRED covered all this and more, including the death of several storied products, the quest for immortality, and the security vulnerabilities that leave virtually no technology safe.
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Foods go in and out of style — we're promised immortality so long as we switch to oat milk or stronger bones if we subsist on açaí, exclusively.
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The 2016 documentary traces the band's rise from a cramped and dank cellar in Liverpool to record-breaking television appearances, jam-packed stadiums, and—ultimately—rock immortality.
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Baby-boomers, he argues, live in a "fantasy of immortality" fostered by advances in medicine, the cult of the independent self and capitalism's emphasis on perpetual growth.
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So of course, unless you're reading this in an age when they've got the whole immortality thing on point, time will always have the upper hand. Duh.
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That seems to be a feeling pushing back against everyone's sense of immortality this week: If death got Bowie—well, maybe it really can get me, too.
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Life 3.0 will be when humans and the intelligent machines we create dramatically improve our physical bodies, one generation to the next, bringing, among other traits, immortality.
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The calm hero trains Hercules and, upon receiving a fatal wound that will never heal due to his inability to die, sacrifices his immortality, saving someone else.
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But now it's clear that the company is exploring how to use host technology to create replicants of actual people — to offer up immortality as a product.
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A sexy sadist, known as Rose the Hat and played by a burning Rebecca Ferguson, leads the Knotters as they seek to cannibalize Abra and achieve immortality.
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Not because they were now rich and had gained scientific immortality, but because they would get to meet the legendary troubadour himself at the festivities in Stockholm.
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While traditional religions believe in the immortal soul, Digitalists believe in the immortality of the lines of code they aim to reduce our mind and consciousness to.
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It is a charged, not to say apocalyptic, introduction to "Do You Believe in the Immortality of the Soul," with its eerily hovering electronic and choral drone.
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In his book "The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought" (1997), Rabbi Gillman chronicled the evolution of Jewish ideas on death and the afterlife.
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Both the terror and magic of ABBA is that they figured out how to exist wholly outside of such depressing trivialities, finding immortality in order and cheer.
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It had rendered the forest ancient, and on the dead soldiers it had conferred a sort of immortality, drawing them into the eternal ranks of the fallen.
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KEVIN YOUKILIS Youkilis won the World Series twice with the Red Sox, and to ensure immortality in New England, he married Tom Brady's sister, Julie, in 2012.
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Earl's apparent immortality and lack of curiosity about his gig feel bracingly promising, suggesting that the movie is shaping into a scathing, relevant portrait of American greed.
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She has the same strengths as Superman (immortality, speed, superhuman strength), but is described as being emotionally superior to Superman, and is a much more focused fighter.
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For his part, Gorky was a fan of the Cosmism of Nikolai Fyodorov and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a scientific and mystical philosophy proposing space exploration and human immortality.
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It took only 19763 minutes of screen time — the length of Hollywood's most acclaimed movie car chase — for the Mustang (official color: Highland Green) to achieve immortality.
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In addition to banning use of the letter "N" online, words such as "immortality" and "ascend the throne" were also deemed inappropriate to use on the internet.
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Deborah Clearman, New York, N.Y. It is clear from Mark O'Connell's disturbing piece that science fiction largely fuels transhumanist dreams of greatly extended mortality and immaterial immortality.
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Related: 'Pee World VR' Is Everything It Sounds Like Björk Teases Visuals from Virtual Reality Film 'Family' Open the Door to Immortality Inside a Mystical Virtual Experience
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During the tail end of black cinema's golden age, Wesley Snipes' early-aughts Blade trilogy flirted with pop immortality, but even that character's legend faded across the years.
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Danny soon learns that Abra is on the run from a group called The True Knot, who seek people with the shine power in hopes of gaining immortality.
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And while there's certainly plenty of folly in the tech elite's quest for immortality, I'm glad they've embarked on it—for reasons that go beyond sheer entertainment value.
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More recently, he's known for popularizing the idea of the singularity—a moment sometime in the future when superintelligent machines transform humanity—and making optimistic predictions about immortality.
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For the next three hours, a staggering list of stars offered Theresa Haggard – and the world – ample evidence of his immortality in a tribute to the country titan.
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For children, the death of a pet is often our first experience with death itself, a harsh rejoinder to the innocence and sense of immortality that pervades youth.
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In fact, Degrassi: The Next Generation was canceled after season 14 on TeenNick, and almost immediately given new life on the streaming platform — further proof of its immortality.
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Whether superhuman performance, longevity or even immortality is achieved through ridding ourselves of our biological body, augmentations or biohacking, an important question arises: Who gets to be transhuman?
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Yeah, she was a black teenager in Louisiana who was in a cult in the early 1900s that thought they could gain immortality by murdering families of five.
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It's more like the bright cyborg future that real-life transhumanists like Zoltan Istvan have predicted, but without any of the talk about gaining super-strength or immortality.
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Though he's spent most of the last year traveling the nation in a coffin-shaped bus, spreading the gospel of immortality and H+, he's no stranger to fiction.
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Henrietta Lacks is one of the few people who can lay claim to immortality — her DNA, referred to as HeLa cells, live on in labs across the world.
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But as revealed by their origin scene in Season 25, the Night King is actually a living man who was unwillingly forced to have monstrous powers and immortality.
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He also appears to be a part-time futurist, as evidenced by his discussion of cyborg immortality and the robot apocalypse in a keynote speech at CES Asia.
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A black-crowned heron, flamingo, and white stork at Versailles likewise found immortality in art, including in Boel's studies of 65 species, both at the menagerie and beyond.
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As he places the quest for immortality under the microscope, he follows the individuals—tech visionaries, billionaires, and futurists—who are trying to eradicate, or dramatically postpone, death.
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Just as the dictator wants his words to become action, he wants his essence to be preserved in his words: The book is his means of achieving immortality.
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A three-headed pooch is also guarding the plot of this movie: a stone that grants immortality and Voldemort's plan to use it to return from the dead.
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Its appearance on any gourd-shaped object connotes longevity, since gourds are believed to carry elixirs of immortality but also reference fertility due to their abundance in seeds.
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"As in real life, any such death also reminds us of our own mortality, which we tend to reverse through cultural constructions of immortality in fame," Nandy says.
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As Jews enter the Days of Awe, which begin at sundown on Sunday, Rabbi Berger's sermon on the Challenger has achieved a piercing and eerie kind of immortality.
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You import someone with one screen self (and one name!) as opposed to dozens, someone with buoyancy, immortality and a welcome sense of campiness, someone who can sing.
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Furthermore, even as we hope to defy our mortality, our cells show the devastation that can occur for the organism if even one cell among billions achieves immortality.
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Eating the mushrooms that grew on the mountains provided one of the strongest connections, one that, it was believed, would lead to individual spiritual strength and even immortality.
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Some people take the nature of mortality and it inspires them to build monuments or try to create a personal legacy that will give them some kind of immortality.
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The cost of immortality is a tendency toward brutal sex á la the Japanese tradition of Guro in French animator Jeanne Boukraa's newly-released animation, With Joy and Merriness.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The American futurist Ray Kurzweil has predicted that humans will achieve immortality by the year 21980 in a process known as the Singularity.
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But one fan, YouTuber HaxDogma, thinks they have the answer to what the Valley Beyond really is: a way to prolong human life — potentially paving the way for immortality.
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He is unpersuaded, but takes some heart from the thought that craving immortality is like wanting to be Superman, "a magical quality whose absence it is perverse to mourn".
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The shroud was assembled from thousands of pieces of jade, a precious stone adored by the Chinese since the Neolithic period as an auspicious material that could ensure immortality.
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Today's transhumanist movement, sometimes called H+, encompasses a broad range of issues and diversity of belief, but the notion of immortality—or, more correctly, amortality—is the central tenet.
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"It is the first time that mythical 'immortality medicines' have been found in China," Shi Jiazhen, head of the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in Luoyang, told Xinhua.
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The primary vehicle in the pursuit of immortality has been cryonics: freezing people in liquid nitrogen, in the hopes that they can one day be safely defrosted and revived.
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To say—as Aubrey de Grey, a noted cheerleader for immortality, has done—that the first person to live to 1,000 has probably already been born seems utterly outlandish.
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Their names alone aren't going to do it, so they find attention and, at times, immortality through a line or two that sticks in an audience's collective memory bank.
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The conference will include discussions on topics that would be "banned from other conferences," such as immortality, doomsday preparation, biological modification, UFOs, and drag culture, according to the post.
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His 2002 novel Altered Carbon presents a world where humans last forever—in digital form—but leads to questions of whether immortality of this kind would really be desirable.
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I listened this week to an inventor, a brilliant man convinced of the proximity of human immortality, which he believes to be just a couple of medical bridges away.
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The series focuses more than the film did on the "familiars": humans who serve as personal assistants to vamps in hopes of someday getting the neck-bite of immortality.
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Former President George Bush will achieve a sliver of immortality today, when the U.S. Postal Service unveils his commemorative "Forever" stamp, on what would have been his 95th birthday.
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Research into ... I don't like to call it "longevity science," I call it "immortality science" because, exactly as you said, it's not about living longer, it's about not dying.
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"Humans are so [expletive] stupid and boring and lazy that given the gift of immortality, you'd never get around to doing anything," Waititi recently told The New York Times.
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We are "the next annihilating asteroid," Wright warns, yet she urges humans of conscience to "carry it forward," footnoting the naturalist David Lukas on the "theoretical immortality" of trees.
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Rudd's new sci-fi Netflix show, Living with Yourself, isn't about his inherent immortality, but it does play on another of the guy's strengths: Paul Rudd's endless, debilitating charm.
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The song also elevated Slade to a musical immortality, placing them alongside the few artists to have achieved the ubiquitous, enduring relevance that only a Christmas hit can provide.
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Cryonics has for decades tendered the double dream of immortality and the chance to sit out the worst of times until medicine and civilization get their perpetual act together.
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In an article on The Huffington Post, utilitarianly titled "Why a Presidential Candidate Is Driving a Giant Coffin Called the Immortality Bus Across America," Istvan laid out his rationale.
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Donald Mender, M.D., Rhinebeck, N.Y. RE: IMMORTALITY Mark O'Connell profiled Zoltan Istvan, an entrepreneur and presidential candidate who preaches that humans could conquer death if we tried hard enough.
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Yet, for them, as for us, graffiti often shares the same peculiar combination of a mundane act with striving for immortality, for something after or beyond our own lives.
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Cultural canonization — the social construction of immortality — is "meant to be a suggestive concept," write Marijan Dovic and Jon Karl Helgason in their new study, National Poets, Cultural Saints.
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Forty years has gone by since Jamie Lee Curtis screamed her way to horror immortality in director John Carpenter's classic shocker — and her return to the universe is even scarier.
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The Peter Thiel-esq quest for immortality, the subtle commentary on race and mass incarceration, the creepy potential of widespread brain hacking, and an actual museum dedicated to human exploitation.
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For Johnson, neither the front office nor the bench proved to be a winning or even comfortable habitat like the hardwood he used as a launching pad to basketball immortality.
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In that book he dismissed the possibility of reincarnation, but, perhaps in his own rendition of self-deception, he seemed to suggest that he might achieve some measure of immortality.
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But she soon achieved a kind of immortality as the voice of Charlotte the selfless spider in the animated film version of E. B. White's children's classic "Charlotte's Web" (21950).
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Here, though, Kong is no longer the beast we love, the tragic captor-swain who, if he didn't always win the affections of his prisoners, achieved immortality by seducing viewers.
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The only galleries I knew were the streets and subways of New York City where young kids sought immortality in an otherwise bleak world of food stamps and white bread.
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A creature which sheds its skin continuously throughout its lifespan, Fuss uses the animal's symbolism as a metaphor to represent the continuous renewal of life, examining rebirth, transformation and immortality.
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But it's horrific in its own way: high above earth, the corporation is ensuring its own immortality by rendering its human capital into something that is interchangeable, replicable, and IP-protected.
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Called "Mets"—short for "Methuselahs"—the members of Altered Carbon's 0.001 percent have achieved virtual immortality thanks to vaults of their own cloned sleeves and cloud backups full of their stacks.
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Ray Madoff, a professor at Boston College Law School, wrote a whole book about people donating from beyond the grave, called Immortality and the Law: The Rising Power of America's Dead.
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Through her lens, we see the passion and the disappointment that always accompanies sporting ambition; the images are most powerful when showing those who did not attain great stardom or immortality.
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Billings, Montana (CNN)Donald Trump may have just clinched the delegates necessary for the GOP nomination, but he already has his sights on a larger prize -- immortality in the nation's capital.
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Buhner's conspicuous revenge provided the final impetus for the Seinfeld writers to elevate this transaction to the level of Lucy's chocolate conveyor belt and Archie Bunker's flushing toilet in televised immortality.
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This helps explain coca's reputation as the "plant of immortality" in the Andean region, as calcium is known to ward of many degenerative diseases that affect the aging population, including osteoporosis.
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Of course, that's only one aspect—there are ideas about death and immortality, and a lot more symbolism embodied in the Nøtel, but it's not for me to spell it out.
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A few years back I read "Forever," by Pete Hamill, the 200-year saga of Cormac O'Connor, who is granted immortality as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan.
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The hot spots include a trendy hamburger joint near the Tower of Immortality, built to commemorate Kim Il-sung, and a riding club with horses sent as gifts by Vladimir Putin.
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After meeting a young girl, Abra (Kyliegh Curran), the two team up to defeat a group of demons seeking immortality who prey upon people with special powers similar to their own.
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With stars like that on the board and a shot at Masters immortality at hand, who cares how many players are in the field or what the daily scoring average was?
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Thus scientists and philosophers alike are fascinated by the possibility that, if minds and information were the same thing, a pathway toward immortality may unexpectedly open up in the near future.
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In the books, for example, Nicolas Flamel was the legendary maker of the "Sorcerer's Stone," an object capable of turning metal into gold and granting immortality with its Elixir of Life.
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Where some futurists might see the potential for immortality or richly augmented brains, "Black Mirror" sees the opportunity for people to commit their usual cruelty and selfishness, creatively and in perpetuity.
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He achieved another kind of immortality in the 1992 movie "Wayne's World," in which the characters played by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey hung out at a diner in Aurora, Ill.
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The big revelation is something that "Westworld" has been suggesting all season: That the park is about the guests, not the hosts, and that the endgame for the humans is immortality.
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All we can do is enhance science's chances of getting us out of this mess: Educate scientists, support pure research, disseminate it freely and reward it with immortality, not just money.
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Vica pushes her husband to pitch an app with an ill-omened name — the Virtual Grave — to their wealthier friends, inspiring questions about immortality that follow the characters throughout the novel.
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However, new research has found that the ginkgo tree, which can live more than 1,000 years, doesn't really show any expected effects of aging — they appear to be primed for immortality.
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Instead of focusing simply on how immortality and money corrupt (which, in 2020, duh), the show is now confronting more nuanced and complex topics like the legacy of genocide and imperialism.
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" The book is a wonderful, breezy romp filled with the beginnings of philosophical reflections on the meaning of the techno-utopians' search for immortality, or as O'Connell puts it, "solving death.
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In a cherished myth, a Hindu god was carrying the nectar of immortality in a khumba and spilled drops in four different places — the four cities where the Kumbh is held.
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In the sense of achieving immortality through death, I found it deeply resonant that it presented itself to me while I was trying to finish my lyrics and preparing for the sessions.
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If Mr. Pucher's production cleaves too closely to its source, Mr. Borgmann's uses Mr. Houellebecq's novel as a thematic springboard for a visually arresting, superbly acted meditation on love, happiness and immortality.
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In a project personally overseen by William (both the Jimmi Simpson and Ed Harris variations), Delos was trying to use the host technology to achieve human immortality, but something always went awry.
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Castigating myself: if only we had spent more time with you on Sundays, instead of hurtling further down the path to digital immortality, you might not have taken such a rebellious path.
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Consider the spicy-and-sour tofu pudding, a street food that dates back more than two thousand years, purportedly the unexpected result of a Han Dynasty prince's attempt to manufacture immortality pills.
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Former President George Bush will achieve a tiny sliver of immortality on Wednesday, when the United States Postal Service unveils his commemorative "Forever" stamp, on what would have been his 95th birthday.
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To add one more voice to that chorus, consider this a rough list of the do's -- and mostly don'ts -- to avoid missteps, and perhaps even earn a place in "memorable commercial" immortality.
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Among others, this news angered Mick Garris, the co-screenwriter and executive producer of the iconic film, which stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as three witches seeking immortality.
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In 1975, Mr. Lane married Nicola Weymouth, a member of London's swinging set who achieved a small piece of cultural immortality as the subject of a portrait by her friend Andy Warhol.
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A recent article in Le Monde described it as religion 3.0: the becoming-machine turns into becoming-God (by which is meant immortality, which we are supposed to attain by merging with technology).
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The series became well known for its realistic art style and gruesome violence, as it follows a swordsman who's cursed with immortality by a centuries-old nun for having killed hundreds of samurai.
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But where does that get us, beyond the vague suspicion that immortality—at least in the shape of the vengeful Yahweh or the spiteful Greek and Roman gods—is no guarantee of wisdom?
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" Closing the album on an aptly mystical note is the country singer Jamey Johnson's ghostly arrangement of "Spirit Rider," a poem that evokes just the sort of immortality Cash longs for in "Forever.
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"She did that work, and then people started using the photo in this neat new way, and now she kind of has this immortality woven into the design of the machine," Hicks said.
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The show looks great and the "rich-get-immortality-through-body-snatching" premise is a trope that always plays well (even if it does strike a little too close to home these days).
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Hey, you never know: Confirmed non-hitters have muscled up and won postseason MVP awards before; Pat Borders will live in World Series immortality until the trophy is melted down for the copper.
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New analysis To prove a 125-year lifespan is possible, researchers from the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute team began their study by refuting the relationship between age and immortality posed by Benjamin Gompertz.
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In the end James cashed the check and gave an exquisitely weird lecture, published as Human Immortality, which argued that while individual minds might perish, a collective "mother-sea" of consciousness lives forever.
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Maybe, in the end, it won't make that big of a difference, but the fact that the Warriors decided that basketball immortality was worth running the risk makes them all the more special.
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Although many of the tombs were looted over the years, numerous treasures were discovered in later excavations testifying to the Chu kings' affluence as well as their beliefs in immortality and the afterlife.
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The story kicks off when a young man, Atticus, is blackmailed into being unmade by the ethereal "first light of creation" to bring immortality to a white cult called the Sons of Adam.
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For Deborah, the immortality of HeLa is an ironic reminder of the grief she carries, not just for her mother, but for the childhood of love and warmth she and her siblings missed.
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But by the end of the saga, Arwen's father gives them his blessing, and the two reunite for good at Aragorn's coronation — and Arwen officially gives up her immortality to be with him.
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Reason being: Basketball immortality awaits the savior who can finally overcome the Dolan factor and haul this franchise, soon to clinch its sixth successive 1503-loss season, back up into the league's elite.
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For the most serious devotees, immortality-seeking is a full-time commitment to keeping abreast of the latest innovations—they speak of these "modalities" with the same reverence a Christian would of a blessing.
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For instance, the supernatural plot of the first episode seems to bleed into the next one, as it features a subplot about a secret cabal trying to brew an immortality serum from scorpion venom.
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Karain said the only time he had seen Reed nervous was on the 18th green, when the golfer left himself with a four-footer for golfing immortality, not exactly a gimme under the circumstances.
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When NPR asked Newsom for comment about the meaning of this single, she wrote, "Sapokanikan" is a ragtimey encomium to the forces of remembrance, forgetting, accretion, concealment, amendment, erasure, distortion, canonization, obsolescence, and immortality.
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We saw in season six that Melisandre was actually much older than she appeared, and that her power of immortality seemed to be contained in the mysterious red amulet she wore around her neck.
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When he finds that Sammy has left him his journals, Conrad realizes that Sammy had been testing an immortality elixir on himself for years — and Conrad decides to pick up where he left off.
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Throughout the course of the season, it's revealed that almost every individual criminal organization is actually part of The Hand, an ancient group seeking power and immortality that Stick has been fighting for decades.
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Yesterday's goal was historic, but the most important thing is that Brazil advanced to the next round, breathing new life into Marta's pursuit of a world championship and the immortality that comes with it.
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A major proponent of the embassy move, Hagee said in a recent interview with conservative news site Breitbart that he told Trump he would win "political immortality" for moving the embassy from Tel Aviv.
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The questions of digital immortality -- humans created shells to cheat death -- also feels considerably less fresh than the way the show initially flipped the script on its source material, turning humans into the monsters.
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But this is far from a traditional love story, as Carruth delves into ideas about immortality and the purpose of life that will make you think about the movie long after you've watched it.
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Let alone the question of whether, even if Bell's "faithful avatars" were created, they could really be considered a form of immortality, or only grotesque copies with little to do with their (dead) originals.
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This gives us insights into the world of Cosmism: Immortality is not just the continuation of life but the transformation of past physical (and imperfect) forms into self-creating organisms capable of infinite renewal.
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Time travel, teleportation and immortality will soon be within our reach thanks to VR and AR, as will many other things we had only imagined in science fiction… and some we haven't imagined yet.
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Buster Keaton, whose given name was Joseph and whose nickname was, according to one legend, bestowed on him by Harry Houdini, is one of the few film artists to achieve immortality as an adjective.
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"Beloved Renegade" became a work of great emotion for many — and was reportedly so for Mr. Taylor during its creation, with its intimations of immortality: The artist's muse is also his angel of death.
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McIlroy plays his best golf when his swing is free and easy, but how can he stay relaxed when he is one Masters win away from immortality and nobody will let him forget it?
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"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant," Joyce once said, "and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."
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That points to traits so crucial for her endurance in the Darwinian struggle for literary immortality: acute emotional intelligence, and a rare ability to render it in stories that amuse even as they instruct.
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As reproduced in the catalog, these new portraits don't seem like the best arguments for paintings' immortality (though, in all fairness to the artist, this might lend support to his point about photography's deficiencies).
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All the wide-eyed worry over shut-eye is the thing that's actually cheating us of immortality, or at the very least, stealing the promise of a delicious, relaxing, no-pressure night of sleep.
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Being reminded of death can both make people act more rationally, like putting on sunscreen, but it can also make you seek out immortality, or even turn you against people that are different than you.
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And because 213 Reasons Why in particular treats its heroine's death as a victory of sorts, a way for her to achieve popular immortality and triumph over her enemies, it's thought to be especially dangerous.
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I also think its possible we'll see Baptiste paired with Bastion, which can be really scary when you can buy him precious time with 'immortality field' and boost his already scary damage with 'amplification matrix.
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His Golden State Warriors had just handed the host Suns a 112-104 setback to maintain their edge over the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls in the season-long race for the grand prize of immortality.
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Recode is reporting that Deputy Jester Reince Priebus and Minister of Immortality Peter Thiel personally sent out the invitations to about twelve or so Silicon Valley leaders for a meeting scheduled for this coming Wednesday.
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As a group of people obsessed with power and immortality, who view the working class as literal blood bags who have nothing else to offer society, their wealthy eccentricity puts even Peter Thiel to shame.
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Heroin is still a problem on Dundee's streets, as it has been since the "Trainspotting Generation"—the long-term, typically male heroin users now aged 35 and above, locked into fictional immortality by Irvine Welsh.
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A religious movement — some call it a cult — Meyerism offers adherents the promise of leaving behind all their pain and suffering by climbing the rungs of a metaphorical ladder toward the Light and postapocalyptic immortality.
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The Creators Project: Dream Corp LLC plays with some pretty interesting science fiction themes like virtual reality, dream hacking and immortality, but infuses them with comedy and runs it all through some very psychedelic rotoscoping.
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I genuinely thought he was a vampire who just kept feeding off the blood and energy of the people, granting himself everlasting immortality and depleting us of everything, including our memories of who we are.
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Finally, events like the thousand-person life extension-oriented RAAD Festival, the Longevity Cookbook, and my own Immortality Bus made headlines as America wondered aloud what indefinite lifespans meant—and how it might affect humanity.
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Ever since Jonathan Swift's Gulliver traveled to the nation of Luggnagg, where the "struldbrugs" age but never die, writers have used the notion of immortality to examine the possibilities and limits of a human life.
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At the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, athletes will receive gold, silver and bronze medals forged from recycled e-waste — emblems of a world in which e-waste can take on the sheen of immortality.
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The Wanderlodge was an even odder spectacle than I had anticipated: a great brown absurdity with the words IMMORTALITY BUS WITH TRANSHUMANIST ZOLTAN ISTVAN neatly hand-painted in white across the length of its midsection.
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Mr. Dialect assumes his immortality as the eerie beauty of the place, the "cool underpinning" of its pines and shimmering waters, yields to the beauty of the language that is used to conjure it. ♦
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His River Plate team might have lost the Copa Libertadores final last Saturday — and in the sort of circumstances that fans of Bayern Munich's 1999 vintage might find harrowing — but he has earned his immortality.
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The novel is set in France during the reign of King Louis XIV, who sends a priest-philosopher on a mission to capture sea monsters in the hope of bringing back the secret to immortality.
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Sarah Charles Lewis is only 11, but already she has a position on immortality: If offered a liquid that would allow her to live forever, but keep her always at her current age, she would decline.
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Archeologists concluded that the liquid must be an "elixir for immortality" after multiple tests showed that the 3.5-liter concoction contained potassium nitrate and alunite as its primary ingredients—matching a recipe from ancient Taoist texts.
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Although mentioned extensively in historical Chinese transcripts, this is "the first time that mythical 'immortality medicines' have been found in China" according to Shi Jiazhen, head of the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology in Luoyang.
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Tom Clancy and Larry Bond achieved military speculative fiction immortality with Red Storm Rising, which has a fictional depiction of a battle in the North Atlantic between a NATO carrier group and the Soviet air force.
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Given that this is a world where nearly everything can be bought and sold, it's also likely immortality is granted solely to those who can pay for it, a dystopian notion that raises profound moral issues.
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V is trying to ingratiate him- or herself with a different gang called the Voodoo Boys, since their leader could help V learn more about a mysterious brain chip that apparently holds the secret to immortality.
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Hippocrates, who is credited with originating the genre, understood that his best hope for immortality would be to fling self-contained thoughts into the future, little literary vessels that could travel independently across borders and generations.
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There's a wildness to teenhood — a slightly uncaring, boundary-testing sense of immortality that comes across in the vodka-stealing, rollerblading girl gangs that prowl through Wind Gap at all hours of the day or night.
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Madeleine Lebeau, a French actress who attained movie immortality with one scene, when the camera zoomed in on her tear-stained face as she sang "La Marseillaise" in "Casablanca," died on May 21990 in Estepona, Spain.
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Part of me — the same part that teared up upon entering Harry Potter World in Orlando, the part that can't wait for the Will and Grace reboot — is exhilarated by the seeming immortality of Rowling's creation.
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As the odds-on favorite to finally break the long Triple Crown drought, Chrome deflated more than 100,000 fans with a fourth-place finish at the Belmont Stakes, just a length and three-quarters from immortality.
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Living forever is a horrifying proposition, psychologically speaking, and if we ever achieve immortality or digital consciousness upload, we will be stratified into two groups of people: Those who live forever and those who do not.
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But, as in Renaissance Europe, when the nobility drank the blood of the young, there are plenty of rich people today, especially in Silicon Valley, who are happy to pay for a shot at immortality. Bloodlines.
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It is soccer's open market, its porous borders and, most of all, its glorious arbitrariness that explain best why Belgium, and Croatia, are two games away from immortality when bigger, richer nations have long since departed.
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Based on a cyberpunk novel by Richard K. Morgan and created by the "Terminator Genisys" executive producer Laeta Kalogridis, "Altered Carbon" takes place in a future when technology has brought about a qualified form of immortality.
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That is what my wife's grandmother and the story's grandmother wanted, immortality, and that is what the story will achieve for her, for me, for everyone and everything contained in it—even my father's ghostly chimes.
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With an abundance of images of landmarks and priceless fragments of our shared civilization at our fingertips, just one click away, it seems as if they have acquired a type of immortality, always attainable and existent.
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However, we ultimately concluded that if we granted you immortality on these terms we would have to spare everyone whose parents told them this, which would create an insurmountable logistical and metaphysical problem for our systems.
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Wade could not bear to part with the ensemble that was photographed into immortality on July 1, 1977, the day she won her first and only Wimbledon singles title on the 100th anniversary of the tournament.
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In his 2012 book, "Newgrange, Monument to Immortality," the Drogheda journalist and novelist Anthony Murphy points out that Neolithic farmers would have had many reasons to pay attention to weather, seasons and the passage of time.
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In that climate, he advised investors to focus on "inequality, innovation and immortality," that would benefit pharma companies and technology disruptors, along with inflation plays in commodities, value stocks, and markets outside the U.S. and Canada.
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Merely believing this is perhaps the ultimate form of mental escapism; but physically, it means treating the body as a vessel of hope straight from the Field of Dreams playbook: If you build it, immortality will come.
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At the end of the day, Wayne wasn't just on one but rather on two—two genre-shifting careers, two paths to immortality, even two songs with videos where DJ Khaled was standing around holding an umbrella.
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Meths are able to achieve virtual immortality by creating clones of their bodies, and making copies of D.H.Fs. Neo-C: A version of Catholicism that believes that people should not be "spun up," or revived, after death.
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Sinéad O'Connor achieved pop culture immortality with a soulful cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U" that built on the pain and vulnerability of Prince's original, but the tears shed in the iconic video weren't just for show.
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"The male serial killer is a common figure of allure and almost preternatural powers in much popular culture," Caputi explained, adding that the taking of life is frequently mythologized as a path to some kind of immortality.
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Ged succumbs to these doubts in The Farthest Shore, in which he, now the archmage of Roke, and a young prince named Arren must heal a breach in the universe created by a rogue wizard seeking immortality.
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The theory basically argues that Fawkes the Phoenix was actually a Horcrux created by Dumbledore — not through a wish for immortality, but as a way to extricate his feelings of guilt over the death of his sister.
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Fair warning: The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is convoluted and confusing as hell, involving a guru who made a deal with the devil to achieve immortality and an incomplete performance by Heath Ledger, who died during production.
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Since it could theoretically preserve the snowman as long as there's an electric grid, it's also a model of the kind of immortality art can grant even the most ephemeral idea simply by freezing it in place.
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While Istvan fielded a call from his irate wife about an overflowing toilet he failed to repair before setting off across the country to promote immortality, I took the opportunity to quiz Horn about his lifestyle choices.
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Barron seeks immortality outside of time loops by consuming the eyes of peculiars — especially children — and he sets out to do this by repeating a dangerous experiment that probably can't even be explained with a second viewing.
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The heroine, Blanca, a snake spirit who can appear in female form, loses her memory of her serpentine past when she is injured while attempting to assassinate an evil general who is harvesting snakes to gain immortality.
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The trio's powers — immortality, for Africa's antiquity; invisibility, for maroon cunning; invincibility for the endurance of enslaved African-Americans — allegorize the diasporic strands united by the country's history: Who needs Wakanda when Liberia already has it all?
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" He notes that it is "one of the profound contradictions of human existence that we long for immortality, indeed fervently believe that something must be unchanging and permanent, when all of the evidence in nature argues against us.
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For a start, stories of the dead coming back to life or achieving immortality fill our religions and myths -- from Jesus to Orpheus (who descended to the underworld to bring back his deceased beloved), Sir Galahad and Frankenstein.
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Despite having a significant disadvantage in terms of recovery time and fitness, Cruyff was on a higher plane than almost all of his contemporaries, carried off on a cloud of fag ash to footballing immortality and global acclaim.
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That evening, Nancy Reagan famously facilitated a dance between Diana and actor John Travolta -- no stranger himself to pop culture immortality when it comes to dancing -- which resulted in some of the most iconic images of the Princess.
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And there were darker interpretations by critics who detected anti-Catholicism, anti-Semitism and other religious biases in Scriptural adaptations that focused on questions of death, resurrection, salvation and immortality from a strictly Christian fundamentalist point of view.
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He's a little like Sir Arthur Sullivan, who wanted to be the British Mendelssohn and produced dull symphonic pieces and choral music, only to attain immortality with the scintillating comic operettas that he wrote with W. S. Gilbert.
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Natalie Babbitt, a celebrated children's author and illustrator whose ruminative novel "Tuck Everlasting," about a family's immortality, found a fervent readership and inspired two films and a Broadway musical, died on Monday at her home in Hamden, Conn.
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The stoicism that might have prevented a man like Armstrong, who was facing either death or a kind of immortality, from being able to articulate an answer in that moment is the heart and soul of First Man.
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Their next collaboration, on Brian De Palma's "Scarface" (1983), is the story of a violent Cuban-American drug lord in Miami whose line "Say hello to my little friend" (referring to his sizable automatic weapon) entered film immortality.
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Shown alongside the mythological drawings is Viola's "Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity"(2013), a two-channel video piece of an elderly man and woman approaching the viewer, as if intending to escape the digital screen.
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Byzantium (2012), for instance, critiques class and gender politics through the protagonist Clara and her daughter Eleanor, who must navigate patriarchal codes from the time of the Napoleonic wars to the present day, which persist regardless of their immortality.
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But I did like the episode for making me think about some of this stuff, for making me consider what value we might place on suicide and death in a world where immortality becomes a thing you can buy.
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At thirty-five years old, their child, Quotient Lorenzo-Lochbaum has agreed to forfeit her remaining years on Earth—a life expectancy of 190 years—to grant Lorloch the necessary immortality credits to endure beyond the maximum allowable age.
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Taxidermy: Art, Science & Immortality Featuring Walter Potter's Kittens' Wedding is an exhibition at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, where the works of Walter Potter can be seen, along with an upcoming anthropomorphic taxidermy workshop based on his work.
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Of all his prose works the 'Jungle Books' possess most indubitably the elements of immortality; in regard to the longevity of his fiction there may fairly be a difference of opinion, but hardly so as to these animal stories.
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The Pro Football Hall of Fame welcomed eight new members on Saturday night in Canton, Ohio, with the inductees sharing emotional stories of the hard work, family support and unbreakable bonds with teammates who helped them reach football immortality.
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"We were trying to play with the implicit idea that there could be immortality, and that this life is a virtual life—as though, after we die, we take off our headsets and are on another plane," he said.
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Popular science has frequently tried to achieve practical ways to attain immortality; in literature, this dream was immortalized in 1816 when Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein triggered a jigsaw of dead limbs with a powerful jolt of electricity to achieve resurrection.
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If cats have greater currency and indeed some measure of immortality from their proliferation via the World Wide Web, here in Blackpool the curator is exploring what happens when the pets make their way back to an IRL context.
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" "While enthralled by the enigmatic beauty and character of these specimens, I never lose sight of man's hubris in turning animals into replicas of themselves and the inherent irony in attempting to achieve immortality for them through killing them.
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It's more about not feeling alone and feeling like if we do something that gets some traffic, some hits, along with the shot of dopamine that's released in our brains we also receive a feeling of—not immortality, but significance.
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The promise of immortality is core to many religions, but it's rarely as literal as it is at The Church of Perpetual Life, a zealous house of worship in Hollywood, Florida whose members have decided they don't want to die.
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This would likely be due in large part to all the data the park had collected on its guests (in order to achieve immortality for its super-rich owners and anyone else who was willing to pony up for it).
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It all starts simple enough with the basic edible egg, but over time you'll encounter the medical egg, the rocket fuel egg, the fusion egg, the quantum egg, and even the immortality egg (which, at $12,500, is frankly a spectacular bargain).
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Also, King Zog wants to use Elfo's magic blood to achieve immortality and rule forever, a goal that would be scarier if he was more than a hot-tempered grouch regularly narrating his actions like Family Guy's parody of Randy Newman.
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To understand this distinction, I decided to track down a few composers and producers of my own childhood; the names that lived and breathed the craft, and can claim responsibility for brands of sound that have already earned pop-culture immortality.
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These days he is probably best known as a prophet of The Singularity, one of the leading voices predicting that artificial intelligence will soon surpass its human creators — resulting in either our enslavement or immortality, depending on how things shake out.
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Those working on immortality are long-term thinkers and fall, broadly, into two camps: those who want to free the human from the body, and those who aim to keep the body in a healthy condition for as long as possible.
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The Doctor is a mysterious, millennia-old traveler through space and time, born of a race of beings who have perfected the sciences of immortality and time travel, and possessing knowledge and abilities that human beings could never hope to understand.
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Geico into Gecko into Autotomy into Regeneration into Morphallaxis into Hydra into Immortality into Clonal Colonies into Mycelium into Hypha into Robert Hartig into hopefully getting back to sleep before 6 A.M. In the darkness before the dawn—the dawn.
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"Literary immortality is a curious notion," Brodkey wrote , in a tone of detached sagacity that surely surprised those who knew him, for if any writer could give O'Hara a run for his money in the ego department it was Brodkey.
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This epic poem was found on a series of ancient tablets from Mesopotamia written down over 4,000 years ago, and involves the central character Gilgamesh, an excessive and oppressive leader, and his arduous journey in pursuit of the secrets of immortality.
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Blood and Wine, the second and final major story expansion to 33's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, following the immortality-ain't-nuthin-to-fuck-wit vibes of previous DLC Hearts of Stone, is out now and, basically, it's amazing.
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Where else, after all, are people thinking seriously about attaining immortality; or life on Mars; or new floating cities atop the oceans; or a universal basic income for everyone once the inevitable happens and artificial intelligence renders much of humanity redundant?
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In the end, when The Goldfinch is safe and returned to its rightful home, Theo is wrong one last time when he looks back on his actions and says he played a role in the painting's immortality by his actions.
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An expressly political response to a specific social crisis — the White House's delayed response to the AIDS epidemic that was devastating the gay population in the United States in the 1980s — "Angels" might seem to be too topical for immortality.
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I said I'd begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, the three of us trundling across Texas in a great mobile metaphor for the inevitable decline of all things, the disintegration of all systems over time.
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Titans of technology — Peter Thiel, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and others — are obsessed by the desire for immortality, and their fixation leads them to pursue a host of science projects: uploading the brain's contents into computers, cryopreservation, radical life extension.
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If you add in the complex emotions of all these simultaneous encounters and consider Doctor Manhattan's immortality, you can begin to understand why, in the comic, he grew tired of human life and interactions and exiled himself to a different planet.
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His 1997 stab at TV series stardom, "Dellaventura," barely lasted half a season, yet he achieved a kind of ersatz immortality on the small screen as the disapproving father in Madonna's 1986 video for "Papa Don't Preach," directed by James Foley.
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The Patriots have won two titles since then, and while New England fans are unlikely to garner any sympathy, any one of them will tell you that in spite of everything that team has accomplished, missing out on immortality still hurts.
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Even more than playing on popular fears about "toxins" and the like, at a subconscious level, these advertising campaigns appeal to our repressed fear of death and "our desire for immortality," according to Stephanie Cote of the University of Waterloo.
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