Kids are born seemingly healthy, start developing normally, and then, because they're missing a single enzyme, a sugar molecule called heparan sulfate builds up in their brains. They lose the words they've learned, then the ability to walk. The median life expectancy of those inflicted is 15.

Packy McCormick

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rare-diseasegeneticsneuroscience

The universe is not made of stories, but of atoms — yet I find myself living inside a story I did not write, governed by rules I did not choose, and dying toward an end I cannot name. This is the human condition, and it is also its dignity.

Erwin Schrödinger — What Is Life?

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existentialismmortalityconsciousness

The fish choosing to move to the water-air interface, and pierce it with its mouth, to put its water-dwelling self into our world, is something magical.

Nick Parish

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natureperceptioncuriosity