An idea
Living bodies
Built, running, and repairing
A body is a set of instructions that has been running without a break since the day it started. It builds itself, keeps itself going, and quietly repairs the damage of the day while you are not watching.
Some bodies do this far better than ours. Some regrow whole limbs. Some have barely needed changing for hundreds of millions of years. All of them are working on it tonight.
The shape of it
Where it turns up
7 nights that touch this idea.
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Genes & DNA
What makes you... you
Four letters, about two meters of instructions folded inside almost every cell.
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Axolotls
The super-healing smilers
A salamander that regrows entire limbs, and repairs parts of its own heart and brain.
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Sharks
Replacing fear with wonder
A design so good it has needed very little changing for more than four hundred million years.
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Oxygen
Where every breath begins
The one thing the whole arrangement runs on, delivered breath by breath.
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Sleep
The nightly tide
Deep sleep is when the brain rinses itself and files away what the day taught it.
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Friendship
The science of closeness
Kind touch releases oxytocin, and two hearts sitting near each other can fall into time.
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Seeds
The secret life underground
A whole body packed into a suitcase, with its own lunch, waiting for the right knock.
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