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See for me, cultivating the Infinity Mushroom is more than just scientific experimentation or gardening or raising a pet, it's a step towards accepting the fact that someday I will die and decay.
This was my house on the day I boarded it up to protect it from the elements and further decay.
Announcer Six: Societal decay.
Now, all of that grass you see aboveground has to decay biologically before the next growing season, and if it doesn't, the grassland and the soil begin to die.
Now, if it does not decay biologically, it shifts to oxidation, which is a very slow process, and this smothers and kills grasses, leading to a shift to woody vegetation and bare soil, releasing carbon.
What they're feeling for is if the tooth is really hard, then it's healthy, but if it's kind of soft and sticky, that's a signal that the enamel is starting to decay.
It hones in on the deceased by sensing a chemical that's coming off the body during decay.
Vultures accelerate decay.
The turkey vulture smells the decay, lands.
There are cycles of decay that are driving forest growth, and there are networks of fungus beneath your feet that are connecting literally all of the plants around you.
First, the collagen in our folds stiffens and the surrounding elastin fibers atrophy and decay.
From the start, tar, a black, resinous material, begins to coat the teeth and gums, damaging tooth enamel, and eventually causing decay.
Rural and suburban areas decay more slowly, but in largely unsurprising ways.
But the first burials revealed some advantages over other practices: they protected bodies from scavengers and the elements, while shielding loved ones from the sight of decay.
On the right-hand side, we've taken that same piece of coral, put it in a nuclear reactor, induced fission, and every time there's some decay, you can see that marked out in the coral, so we can see the uranium distribution.
The decay helps us find out about the rates and dates of what's going on in the ocean.
And all along this food chain, living things shed organic matter and expel digestive waste before dying and leaving their remains to decay.
It then heats up, cools back down, heats up, cools back down, heats up again, and then has this beautiful decay curve until it smashes into this cold river.
Satellites there are naturally buffeted by Earth's atmosphere, so their orbits naturally decay, and they'll eventually burn up, probably within a couple of decades.
I think we'd be wrong to reject them, to discard them, because we identify them as symptoms of the cultural decay of our times.
It means accepting that we are doomed to decay and die, just like any other creature on earth.
And I have some good news: if you're looking to avoid the whole "doomed to decay and die" thing: you will have all the help in the world in that avoidance from the funeral industry.
Embalming is a cheat code, providing the illusion that death and then decay are not the natural end for all organic life on this planet.
Bodies donated to science are brought here, and their decay is studied to benefit the future of forensics.
This is because they decay very quickly into the lighter particles.
One species not only has the colour and appearance of rotting meat; it emits a scent of decay as well– drawing in flies who deposit their eggs on the flower and unwittingly pollinate the plant.
So this triptych, these three panels, portray the timeless truth that order tends to decay.
In a little under two hours, about half the fluorine will be gone due to radioactive decay, so the clock is ticking to get the scan done.
The isotopes used in PET decay by positron emission.
One of the weak particles could decay into an electron and an antineutrino, and these three still add to zero total charge.
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