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Body health and balance.
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How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature to Thrive

Left to their own devices, the natural result of physics and chemistry is death, not life. So how are we still breathing? Read More ›
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Anatomical structure of animal cell
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The Ingenious Cellular Structure that Keeps Us Alive

In the “just so” stories of the Darwinian narrative, these engineering solutions simply evolved. They emerged and got conserved. Voila! Read More ›
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Engineering on Steroids: The Incredible Design of the Human Body

Every day your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. Read More ›
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Do or Die: How Life’s Engineering Keeps Us Alive

Can purely material causes account for the coherent, interdependent, tightly coordinated, and precision-tuned systems that life requires? Read More ›
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Designed to Dance? Here’s What Science Says

Dancing is not a mere add-on feature that came a couple of mutations after mankind figured out how to shamble. 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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Evolutionary Model Can’t Account for Singing

Our fascination with singing and how enamored we can become with hearing quality vocalists reveals something significant about our identity as humans. Read More ›

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