Tag: engineers
Biology as Reverse Engineering
An analogy I like to use is NASA finding a crashed spaceship in a cave located in Area 51.
Ever Thought You Could Change Someone’s Mind?
Iain was a diehard atheist from the United Kingdom. “I absolutely knew that I would never believe in a creator. It was inconceivable to me,” he recalls.
The Miracle of Spiderwebs
Spiders are another of nature’s master engineers. About half of known spider species (order Araneae) construct webs made of silk.
New Book, Animal Algorithms, Spells Fresh Trouble for Darwinism
The book is all about the buzzing, migrating, web-spinning, and colony-building world of ingenious animals.
Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution
Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems.