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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Natural technologies: six old news
Non-random analogies. Why the sperm whale possesses such a large head filled with a peculiar substance. Ode to a parasite. Examples of the beneficial influence of parasites. Cuckoo-style virtual reality. Cuckoo chicks employ auditory and visual signals to manipulate their …
Cloning and its vicinity
And you will be a baobab for a thousand years... The DNA of a deceased person can be implanted into a tree. The weakest link. A person can make a mistake in any situation. Genetic “cuckoos”. On the transplantation of …
Rapid and slow evolution, body remodeling of pythons, and the selfish DNA of infusoria
Evolution in action, or Don't open your mouth to someone else's loaf. The spread of agi in Australia leads to the evolution of the local fauna. Slow immortality. In the thickness of oceanic sediments, bacteria remain alive for millions of …
Genetic miscellany (from the definition of life to the influence of happiness on genetics)
It is hard to be a god. On the development of minimalist artificial life. Genetic expression. Gene chips in gene granules. Shall we train on dogs? Genetic passports. So far for dogs. Is happiness in money? The speed of telomere …
Another five “evolutionary” old news
Vernanimalcula — the first of us. When the chemistry of water began to favor the development of organisms with hard coverings, the amount of dissolved oxygen increased and the dominants of the Vendian period disappeared; relatives of vernanimalcula started experimenting …
Five news items about sex and development
Hard problems of sex. Determination of sex in fish under the influence of human hormones. When sex is not a joy. On the sex ratio in viviparous lizards. Precocious children. Influence of artificial lighting and television on child development. Oh …
"Monkey processes" and brainwashing
New primate process. The image of “scientificity” allows creationists to claim the presentation of their views in secular institutions. Clerical mimicry. Scientific truth is not sought in sacred texts. Religious truth does not need to be proven: it is given …
Six news items on human evolution
Step towards the resurrected Neanderthal? On the restoration of the genome of extinct species. An era of change. Why did humans appear on Earth when it was "feverish"? Halfway to the superhuman. On the study of the evolution of modern …