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Sleep—and dream?
A rather old column in which an attempt was made to explain the phenomenon of sleep. Since its publication, the situation seems to me to have fundamentally not changed. It would be worthwhile to learn the opinions of specialist somnologists on this matter...
"Frankenstein's Food" and the Right to Truth
So does a person have the right to know what they eat? Of course they do. But they also have the right to a proper understanding of that knowledge. What does the average person know about modified organisms? That they are somehow dangerous. That people protest against them. That their …
Open Letter to A. V. Yablokov Regarding a Book on Genetically Modified Products (Written circa 2002)
Around 2002 I read a book that amazed me: "Kings and Cabbage. What They Will Never Tell You About Genetic Engineering" (Moscow: SOES Publishing House, 2000). This book was published with funds from a foundation led by the renowned Russian biologist A. V. Yablokov. The result was this open let...
Two articles on global warming
The warm road to Kyoto. If the threat of climate change forces humanity as a whole and each individual to reconsider the motives of their activity, it may play a beneficial role in our history. Global warming as a phenomenon of mass consciousness. Even the scientific explanation of the climate...
Four Old News Items: Altruists, the RNA World, the Goliath Cyborg, and Obesity
Altruists die, but their cause lives on.
Four “Nobel” News Items from Different Years
Nobel loves threes.
Four Earlier News Items: A Unique Case of Symbiogenesis, Cloning, Fighting Warming, and Artificial Organs
The caring thief. Admit it: even if you tried to invent something like this, would you have enough imagination?
More News: The Skull of an Immortal and Various Odds and Ends
The skull of an immortal.
A Discussion of a Bright Future
Horse-drawn transport — the bright future of humanity? And who will protect the idyllic patriarchal communes from the hungry hordes arriving from regions where growing the required amount of food will have become impossible? Between Eeyore and Piglet. The optimistic certainty that some super-technologies will eliminate the problems we face …
A Blown-Up Sensation + an April Fools' Hoax
Could it really be a tyrant-bird?
Three News Stories: Mobile Phones, Cloning, and the Search for New Medicines
Hello! Good night! The debate over whether mobile phone radiation is harmful to human health is far from over. One step from a clone. And how one still longs for an elixir of youth, if only in the high-tech form of embryonic stem cells derived from cloned embryos...
The Red Queen Rule, Eurypterids, and Forecasts for 2008
Where Crayfish Winter. One of the greatest challenges in studying biological evolution is the absence of a time machine. And Crayfish, and Scorpion. Why do people listen open-mouthed to stories of freaks and monsters that inhabited the Earth in prehistoric times? Past and Future. There Will Be No Revolutions. ...
III. Pisces-04. Class “Osteichthyes” — Bony fishes
It is time to consider the origin and characteristics of bony fishes.
Creationism as a form of intellectual doublethink
Troitsky variant. — 2008. — No 7N (821). — p. 6.
Four messages about music and rhythms
Mozart at the molecular level. Listening to Mozart’s melodies led to increased expression of certain genes in the hippocampus of rats and to an increase in the synthesis of synaptic growth factors. Song of the left leg. The “voices” of cells are in the audible range (around 1 kHz), but …