Tag: spinal cord
Life and Origami: Lessons from the Art of Paper-Folding
The differences between an origami figure and a living thing are more instructive than their similarities.
I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Graphene
Graphene was first characterized in 2004 when two researchers took graphite and exfoliated individual sheets of graphene using scotch tape.
ScienceAlert Vindicates My Findings About Human “Tails” — They Are NOT an Evolutionary Atavism
The article cites new literature that has appeared since I published my own review nine years ago.
We’re Seeing the First Wave of Applied Transhumanism
OK. Let’s get real. Most of the morphological transformations for which transhumanists yearn will almost surely never come to pass.
If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?
We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds).