"In a period of rapid evolutionary expansion called the Cambrian Explosion, animal nervous systems acquired the ability to boost the most urgent incoming signals."
I really don't understand why this is so patently obvious as to be stated as some fact. How do you know there is not some scintilla of consciousness…
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Other interesting forms of matter:
1) singularities
2) strange matter
3) neutronium
4) electron degenerate matter
etc etc
Oh, it's mouthing "LO-LEE-TUH." Hmmm. First time I've ever lipread a book cover.
Fun facts:
1) Doctors give 70-90 gray in one shot to a portion of the trigeminal nerve (just a few mm section) to help treat trigeminal neuralgia
2) 8 gray in one shot to a bone which is painful due to spread of cancer there helps eliminate the bone pain
3) It takes up to 50,000 gray for the Post Office to sterilize…
Dwarf galaxy? Or little person galaxy?
/pc
Great article. Can we get a list of the healthiest cigarettes to smoke?
Biography = I don't like it
Autobiography = I love it!
Alcoa? Knoxville? Where you from, Adam? I'm a Tennessee boy.
Must've been a helluva collage.
Yes, scientific posters were way more complicated in the old days.
http://web.expasy.org/cgi-bin/pathwa…
Angola:
"Epidemics of cholera, malaria, rabies and African hemorrhagic fevers like Marburg hemorrhagic fever, are common diseases in several parts of the country. Many regions in this country have high incidence rates of tuberculosis and high HIV prevalence rates. Dengue, filariasis, leishmaniasis, and onchocerciasis…
"And lo, the Sun saw the Earth, and said, 'Kill it; kill it with fire.'"
- Revelations II 1:1
M.D. here. HIV is treatable.
I take the kid inside me everywhere I go, LEGO.
Being the world's strongest and best-looking man... I must ride this, the world's fastest boat.
Video mentions wine... and carbs @ 4 Cal/g, protein @ 4 Cal/g, and fat @ 9 Cal/g. But remember, ethanol is the human body's fourth metabolizable energy source @ 6 Cal/g. It's also somewhat inherently lipogenic.
don't think so—not in human RBCs. The whole idea is just be hemoglobin bags. The mitochondria would take away from that. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_mitoc…
you can certainly sample at least some of his DNA, but not from his red blood cells nor could I get DNA from your red blood cells. In their developmental process from marrow into the blood stream, red bloods cells shed their nucleus and other organelles, becoming DNA-less; this allows them to become mean, lean,…
Carl Sagan (via the aliens in 'Contact') suggested the transcendentals held hidden messages deep within, >10E20 decimal places deep, encoded by the maker(s) of the universe... which was a cool concept!