Tag: blood pressure
Liquid Harmony: How Our Bodies Manage Salt and Water
Left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward degradation and death, not life.
Intelligent Design in Human-Animal Friendships
A man and his emotional support alligator, Wally, made headlines last week when they tried to attend a baseball game together in Philadelphia.
Evolution’s Tall Tale — The Giraffe Neck
The engineering marvel that is the giraffe, long neck and all, was intelligently designed.
Rats! Another Code Found in Whiskers
Neurons in a rat’s whiskers “represent multiple stimulus features in a tiled and continuous manner, thus encoding large regions of a complex sensory space.”
Blood Pressure — And Genuflecting to Evolution
Systems biologists assume for the sake of research that a biological system under investigation is optimally engineered.