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A Story About Gullibility, Skepticism, and Three Associate Professors
Once, after the end of a working day at a university, two associate professors visited an associate professor of biology.
Two Old News Items on Traces of Our Ancestors' Diseases in Our Genotypes
Our ancestors suffered so we wouldn't have to.
Two Misanthropic Columns
Is our song sung?
Two Methodological Articles
Innovation and Reality. The author participated in the project "Informatization of the Education System" in Russia. Together with Alexander Kozlenko and Marina Kravchenko, we developed the innovative educational-methodological complex "Ecology. …
A Meeting with the Forest King
Old News: Evolution of Clonal Rotifers, Super Mice, and Organ Printing
No sex, but no handcuffs either.
Three Articles on Interspecific Recombination
Contagious Genes, or the Horizontal Turn: DNA can be acquired not only from parents. Tracing the genealogy of any microorganism, one can see that a "river" of genetically heterogeneous information …
What Remains of a Human Being?
Three old news items about nature conservation
The sorcerer's students. Driven by curiosity, the sorcerer's apprentice took advantage of his teacher's absence, slipped into the secret room, opened a spellbook to which he had no right to …
On the origin of terrestrial life and its insignificant (but distant) prospects
Life of comets. So, before natural selection set evolution of life in motion, it facilitated the evolution of “pre‑life” – geochemical autocatalytic processes. Earth: existence after death. Currently, the Sun …
Two "psychological" columns and something else about comparing incompatible viewpoints
On the comparison of worldviews. Simplifying, one can say that our behavior is regulated by a feedback loop: model of reality – behavior – reaction to the response of reality …
On Snakes and Toxoplasma (Plus a Bit on Religion)
The python's piercing gaze. A symbolic dialogue with the world begins with the pacification of a totem or idol. If Professor Coulson is right, the first step of our ancestors …