Category: Life Sciences
Zinc and the Miracle of Man
Elemental zinc pulls together multiple themes that biologist Michael Denton writes about in his new book.
Lateral Line: A “Sixth Sense” for Fish (And Other Cool Tricks)
What’s remarkable is that this organ constitutes an analog-to-digital converter, as pressure waves (analog) are converted to electrical signals.
The Miracle of Man: Extraordinary “Coincidences” All the Way Down
The fine tuning, what Denton calls anthropic prior fitness, would seem to require foresight and planning on literally a cosmic scale.
“Bacteria Are Incredible” — Here Are More Illustrations
Much of our plastic debris accumulates in the oceans where it collects in huge revolving garbage patches on the surface called gyres.
Wonderful Microbes Are the Planet’s Ecosystem Engineers
The few pathogens among bacteria give a bad rap to the majority that do wonderful things — for us and for our environment.