Archive for Death
hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death [Libé cover]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures with tags acute malnutrition, cover, Death, Doctors without Borders, Gaza, Gaza war, genocide, humanitarian aid, hunger, illness, Israeli government, Libé, mass destruction, Médecins Sans Frontières, NYT, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Palestine, starvation, The New York Times, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, war crimes, WHO on July 25, 2025 by xi'an
Death won the last chess game [but it took a while]
Posted in Statistics with tags Black Death, chess, Death, impressionism, Ingmar Bergman, Max von Sydow, plague, Sweden, The Seventh Seal on March 30, 2020 by xi'an
Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
Posted in Books, University life with tags A brief history of time, Cambridge University, cosmology, Death, fairy story, quotes, Stephen Hawking on March 14, 2018 by xi'an
“I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”
Mort de Terry Pratchett (1948-2015)
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures with tags Death, Discworld, fantasy, Josh Kirby, Mort, Noli Timere Messorem, Terry Pratchett, The Reaper on March 13, 2015 by xi'an
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