"Pour bien vieillir, il faut garder en soi les curiosités de l’enfance, les aspirations de l’adolescence, les responsabilités de l’adulte, et dans le vieillissement essayer d’extraire l’expérience des âges précédents."
Edgar Morin, Leçons d'un siècle de vie
A classic and super famous performance from 1944! 🔥
The Ross Sisters combining singing with insane acrobatics + contortionist skills (bending in ways that look like they have no bones) 😱
'Solid Potato Salad' – one of the wildest and most talented dance numbers in Hollywood history! Who else is shocked after watching this? 🙌👏👏
A newly found organism is challenging our definition of life itself.
Called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile – named after a tiny Japanese deity – this strange organism doesn’t fit neatly into biology’s rulebook. It’s not quite a virus, but not a fully independent cell either. Instead, it appears to live in the grey zone between life and not-life.
Scientists from Canada and Japan stumbled on it while analyzing DNA from a marine plankton species. Within the data, they found a genetic sequence unlike anything they’d seen before. Closer analysis showed that Sukunaarchaeum belongs to the domain Archaea – ancient microbes that are thought to have given rise to all complex life, including us.
Like a virus, it relies heavily on its host for energy and most metabolic functions. Its stripped-down genome suggests it has evolved to focus almost entirely on replication, outsourcing nearly everything else.
That makes it a biological paradox: part virus, part cell, wholly unique.
["A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome.” bioRxiv, 2025]
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