On the Nature of What We See

We cannot actually see what things are. In a sense, we can only see what they are not. This is … More

What life exists in living and nonliving things?

Bacteria are the answer. They are ubiquitous and many are autotrophic. Autotrophic is a fancy way to say they make … More

A Discussion of Culture-Bound Syndromes: Across societies we see human universals of disease but we also see apparent illness experiences … More

Desert can mean to abandon or be dull Or land waterless, barren, and sandfull In this sense it’s use is … More

The Paleolithic Diet – also referred to as the Caveman Diet – is a nutritional strategy largely inspired by evolutionary … More

The dominant thing that sugar is used for in plants is it’s structural potential, such as the polysaccharide cellulose which … More

Plot, till, amend, sow, fertilize Water, soil, air re-organize DNA coils and cells metabolize Solar rays energize and catalyze Biochemistry … More

It’s likely most creatures do not sense it due to either sensory habituation, lack of survival utility, or a biophysical … More

Ecology is a subfield of biology that, in a broad sense, studies how organisms interact with other organisms and with … More

Water is the solvent of life. Metabolic and homeostatic systems need something like water to function. It’s polar and so good for … More

Most any definition of life would not include a planet as a living being; only the organized anomalies within or on … More

The leading theory of human origins suggests that our species evolved in, and subsequently dispersed from, Africa. In this respect, … More

Brassica olearacea: The pre-human plant (prior to cultivation manipulation) is a modest herb that finds its comfort on rocky outcroppings … More

Multi-cellular organisms that move need a nervous system. Furthermore, they tend to develop actual neural masses of nerve cell networks. … More

In history, the dominating method of describing human physical variation has been typologically based. A typological view follows a system … More

It is biologically useful to have a barrier between the central nervous system and the rest of the body. Blood … More

Entropy is basically the degree of disorder. It’s considered a physical law that on average everything increases in entropy (increases … More