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From Chicken-Stuffing to Immortality Machines: The Faustian Bargain of Modernity

Posted on July 24, 2025     Leave a Comment

The scene feels like a grim parody of scientific progress: London, late March 1626. An aging Sir Francis Bacon, once Lord Chancellor of England, now fallen from grace but still crackling with intellectual ambition, jostles in a carriage through the snow near Highgate. Spying a chicken pecking scraps in a cottage yard, a sudden inspiration […]

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