Category: Life Sciences
Nature Reviews Genetics — Pseudogene Function Is “Prematurely Dismissed”
As Seth W. Cheetham and his co-authors put it, biology suffers from “demotivation into exploring pseudogene function by the a priori assumption that they are functionless.”
Forty Parameters of the Designed Body
Listen in as Steve Laufmann reflects on the body’s fight against equilibrium, the Goldilocks principle, and more!
Alles Klar? Jerry Coyne on an “Argument from Incredulity”
It is astonishing that anyone would think the result a scientific argument, or, even, an argument at all.
Brainwashed — For Your Own Good
An insidious kind of brainwashing goes on without your awareness, day and night. And you couldn’t live without it.
The Ultimate Recycler
Right now, within your bodies this little engine is cranking away. Without this machine, oxygen-dependent life could not exist.