Tag: carbon dioxide
What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?
A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be.
The Incredible Krebs Cycle
Earlier, I wrote about various obstacles to the evolutionary origins of the glycolytic pathway. As noted previously, the end result of glycolysis is pyruvate.
Supreme Elegance: The Fine-Tuning of the Properties of Matter for Life on Earth
In the biochemical domain, nature is indeed, as Isaac Newton rightly claimed, “pleased with simplicity” and abhors “superfluous causes.”
Exposing the Heart of Neo-Darwinism
At complete rest, for your organs and tissues to work properly, your heart must pump out about five liters of blood per minute.
Challenges to Terraforming Mars Highlight the Intelligent Design of Earth
A short list of habitability requirements for humans includes the basics of air, water, and food.