Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
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Howard Glicksman

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Olfaction in Three Dimensions: Introducing the Nasal Cycle

Besides the nose helping the mouth to bring in air, it also screens out dust and pollutants, while warming and adding water to prepare it for the lungs. Read More ›
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Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster. Read More ›
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Why Evolution Struggles to Explain the Transition to Multicellularity

It is as if evolutionary biologists don’t take death into account. All their theories seem to work like magic. Read More ›
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The Extracellular Space: Where the Rest of Life Takes Place

"Zooming out from a single cell, the human body as a whole is made up of around thirty trillion cells." Read More ›
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Exposing the Heart of Neo-Darwinism 

At complete rest, for your organs and tissues to work properly, your heart must pump out about five liters of blood per minute. Read More ›
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Let’s Think About a Zygote Like an Engineer

Actually, life is a series of millions of hard problems that have to be solved all the time, or else. Read More ›
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How Does the Crocodile Hold Its Breath So Long?

The actress Kate Winslet can hold her breath for seven and a quarter minutes. A crocodile, though, can hold his breath for hours. Read More ›
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In Breath-Holding, Kate Winslet and a Croc Are Champions

Kate Winslet, and other actors, for the sake of “the newest frontier in blockbuster moviemaking” are learning to hold their breath for several minutes. Read More ›
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Scientists Discover a “New” Fourth (Meningeal) Membrane Surrounding the Brain

When it comes to causation, there are only two classes of causal forces; those are material causes and intelligent causes. Read More ›
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The Supposed Bad Design of the Human Pharynx

The pharynx affords us the abilities to breathe and swallow, but it does much more. It affords the ability for speech, language, and singing. Read More ›

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