Category: You know this
Epigenetic minds and zero tolerance
Our Epigenetic Minds – The Brain Beyond Darwin, by Edward Ziff August 30, 2012 Excerpt: The Central Dogma and Gradualism distorted our view of disease, evolution…
Cosmos and Feierman: Bamboozled Again
Carl Sagan’s Two Warnings For Humanity In His Very Last Interview – You Might Want To Hear This Excerpt: “One of the saddest lessons of history…
Feierman’s pseudoscientific nonsense
Re: Nutritional intake, psychiatric traits and pseudoscientific nonsense Follow up: Feierman and his friend James Gray are attempting to extend Feierman’s pseudoscientific nonsense to reach…
Transubstantiated? Biological facts and biosocial dimensions
Body Society. 2014; 20:111-132. Consuming the Lama: Transformations of Tibetan Buddhist Bodies by Tanya Maria Zivkovic Abstract: Tibetan understandings about the bodies of spiritual teachers or lamas challenge…
After the debate
Bill Nye and Ken Ham debate creationism at Creation Museum After the debate, I commented: Ecological variation and nutrient-dependent life controlled by the metabolism of…
First response to food odors (and pheromones?)
Locusts reveal how neurons distinguish multiple odors November 25th, 2013 in Neuroscience Excerpt: “Our sense of smell is often the first response to environmental stimuli….
Inherited fears in mice and humans
Do Mice and Humans Inherit the Fears of Their Fathers? My comment: Thanks for asking. Of course they do. The inherited fears and their reaction…
Nematodes: nutrient and pheromone-controlled adaptations
Glowing worms illuminate the roots of behavior Excerpt: “These animals are genetically identical, and they were raised together in the same environment, so where do…
Odor, reproductive state, and success
Thanks to Jon Lieff for alerting me to this: Bacteria may allow animals to send quick, voluminous messages Excerpt: “The diversity, however, still consistently varies…
Natural genetic engineering (NGE)
What Natural Genetic Engineering Does and Does Not Mean by James A. Shapiro on 02/28/2013 Excerpt 1: “NGE is shorthand to summarize all the biochemical…
James V. Kohl detailedl how quantized energy-dependent microRNA biogenesis links the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction to biophysically constrained viral latency and healthy longevity. Links from what organisms eat to the enzyme-dependent metabolism of food also link metabolic networks to microRNA-mediated genetic networks in the context of RNA interference. Drug therapies alter RNA interference by altering cell type differentiation in all cells of all individuals of all species. For comparison, during the past 26 years, Kohl has detailed how the chemistry of protein folding is biophysically constrained at every level of biological organization by conserved molecular mechanisms.