Physics, Evolution, Natural Selection and the Generative Power of the of Far...
On Darwin and His Theory Evolution is a word that can divide the world. Its opponents often claim that all that lives today, in terms of species diversity, did so yesterday…all the way back to the...
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If you are relatively unfamiliar with the ideas included within quantum mechanics, physics, this is an excellent place to begin. It is a good, concise, review for those whose grasp of the topic is...
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Chemists have often argued that everything is chemistry and if you don’t know about it, what can you really know of the world? A current Periodic Table, one with considerably more elements than were...
View ArticleSex, Evolution and Form: Clarifying the Relationship Between Dandelion and...
With the artist’s, Sue Abonyi’s, permission. The European Honeybee, EHB, and the Common Dandelion, are both ubiquitous in our modern urban lives though the one is portrayed as being both essential to...
View ArticleOn the Chaotic Unreality of the Real and How We Redefine It: Reimagining...
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, The Grand Odalisque. Ingres was a Neo-Classicist, who attempted to create images that mimicked ‘reality’ even as it distorted it for effect, lengthening her spine and...
View Article“Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds & Shape our...
Sheldrake, Melvin, “Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds & Shape our Futures”, Random House, 2020. I have spent most of my life outside amongst, growing, observing or...
View ArticleA Review and thoughts on Peter Hoffmann’s book, “Life’s Ratchet: How...
This is a relatively technical book, one whose title, with its definite mechanistic spin, nearly stopped me from reading it. In this Hoffmann begins with a history of science and how we have looked at...
View ArticleEvery Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living...
This is a book about ‘life’, that which animates particular organic structures, organisms, absent from other ‘structures’ which remain fixed, but for the physical and chemical forces which wear them...
View ArticleThe Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms and the Order of Life – A Review...
I’m an integrator, a contextual learner and a big picture kind of guy. I am willing to ‘slog’ through the details, the analyses of experts, to understand what is going on, when the details help me...
View ArticleSong of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human, A Review
The cell is the basic, irreducible, unit of life. Whether an organism is animal, plant, fungal or bacterial, the cell is its basic unit. While it can be broken down into its ‘parts’ for examination,...
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