
Mr.Samsa wrote:rEvolutionist wrote:
Something I've become more interested in of late regarding medicine/philosophy(?) is the concept of "death". The history of being "declared dead"; when exactly (or not) does death occur?; what boundaries does one think medicine will push in the future regarding the point of death. Something like that.That would be interesting. It would be good to look at the pewter poisoning cases from centuries ago that would induce a state of death in the whiskey drinkers of the town. After discovering claw marks on the inside of numerous coffins during a shifting of the local cemetery, they started putting people on the "graveyard shift" to dig up any graves where the bell would ring (attached by string to the "dead" person's toe) but most would end up as "dead ringers".
Mr.Samsa wrote:Mr.Samsa wrote:rEvolutionist wrote:
Something I've become more interested in of late regarding medicine/philosophy(?) is the concept of "death". The history of being "declared dead"; when exactly (or not) does death occur?; what boundaries does one think medicine will push in the future regarding the point of death. Something like that.That would be interesting. It would be good to look at the pewter poisoning cases from centuries ago that would induce a state of death in the whiskey drinkers of the town. After discovering claw marks on the inside of numerous coffins during a shifting of the local cemetery, they started putting people on the "graveyard shift" to dig up any graves where the bell would ring (attached by string to the "dead" person's toe) but most would end up as "dead ringers".
Correction: I fucked up. I mixed up the fake story with the real one (Snopes). The term dead ringer comes from horse racing, "dead" meaning "absolute" and "ringer" being a lookalike - so a dead ringer is when a horse is swapped to cheat in the races.
Thanks to TimONeill for correcting my mistake.
def wrote:My degree is in art history... If this is a 'wiki', any subject should be able to find a home...
Mr. Green Vagina wrote:'what is art'?
Fallible wrote:Don't bacon picnic.
Mr.Samsa wrote::nod: It's sparked up in a couple of threads in the arts forum, but the discussions were fairly short lived and quite medium specific, so it would be good if someone had enough knowledge to give a broad overview of the history and theories of art so we can start to discuss it properly.
Fallible wrote:Don't bacon picnic.
Will S wrote:Apologies in advance if this is a totally dim question, but is this feature of the forum actually up and running? Can I actually read any of the articles which have, so far, been submitted? If not, is there a time-scale for implementation?
LIFE (Jun 10, 2010 3:17 pm ) wrote:We will have a section for articles soon.
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