Unit 9 Why French Live Longer In 1965, a French lawyer, Andre Raffray, gambled on statistics and lost. He acquired the flat of a 90-year-old woman, Jeanne Calment, agreeing to pay her a lifetime pension of 2,500 francs a month in exchange. It seemed

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Black holes got their name because light can't escape them, beyond a certain radiusthe event horizon. But in 1974 Stephen Hawking proposed that quantum effects at the event horizon might cause black holes to benot completely black. Hawking said that

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The Fermi Paradox Back in 1950, the Nobel prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi was having lunch with friends. Conversation turned to the possibility of extraterrestrial life. According to the popular story, Fermi fell silent for a moment and then ask

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: New People is a novel where infatuation gnaws at what looks like happiness. Maria lives in Brooklyn with Khalil, her fiance. They met at Stanford. And they love each other, the light skin color they share and the life they begin in

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Weve recently been talking about the Fermi Paradox, attributed to Nobel-winning physicist Enrico Fermi. According to reasonable estimates of how many stars have planets, how many planets may be suitable for the evolution of organisms, and so on, our

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