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“Progress,” Morality, and “Good” and “Evil”
Almost any person has made questions about what is moral and what is immoral, and numerous philosophers and literally thousands of publications have...
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Insects as Beneficials
The benefits that insects offer to nature and humans are as diverse as they are inestimable. Insects pollinate plants, thus enabling many cycles to...
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Infusions and Wines
Typical drinks of the Mediterranean diet, associated with convivial meals, are wine (in non-Muslim countries)—consumed during main courses—and...
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Towards a Fulfilling Life in This Splendid, Non-Purposeful, Planet
In Peterson’s 2001 excellent book Being Human—ETHICS, Environment, and Our Place in the World she describes two main opposing “modern” positions...
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Insects as Beneficials
The benefits that insects offer to nature and humans are as diverse as they are inestimable. Insects pollinate plants, thus enabling many cycles to...
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What Are Orchids?
Orchidaceae is the largest family of flowering plants in the world, having conquered every continent except Antarctica. As of 2017, the number of...
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A North American Family: The Ecologies of Translation
Every act of communication is predicated on a deeply intuitive assurance that all parties to the exchange, directly or indirectly, are somehow...
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East Africa: Hub of the Unresting Lesser Flamingo
East Africa is the heartland of the Lesser Flamingo. Here this bird is constantly on the move, looking for food and breeding grounds. At Lake Natron,...
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Connecting with the divine and the sacred, and becoming cosmically conscious
In the most general terms, “transhumanism” says that the indefinite projection of those qualities that most clearly distinguish humans from other...
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The Fetus in Utero Including Twins and the Placenta
By definition, the fetus is a develo** mammal or other vivparous vertebrate. In humans, this is the unborn from the eighth week of pregnancy...
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Light and Life
The ability to make out an image using the visual system has developed in almost all species of the animal world. It is believed that all eyes have a...
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Complex Systems and the Evolution of Life
How can one explain the emergence of order in the Darwinian evolution of life? In a famous quotation Kant said that the “Newton for explaining a...
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Causes of Disease
All disease has one of two causes: the genes or the environment (Table 2). In general, the more severe the consequences of a missing or faulty gene...
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T. H. Morgan and the Rise of Genetics
It is inevitable that insights into the elusive secrets of the protein molecule, which is so integral to life, would lead to speculations about the...