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Biodiversity – Concept The title of this post, Biodiversity – Concept, is intended to encompass a summary for the series of several posts on biodiversity and its distinct but complimentary components. This is Post #1 of our Biodiversity Series. Importance of Biodiversity I had been aware for some time that conservation of the Earth’s biodiversity…
Change of Plan A change of plan: my new post series on cooperation is postponed. Sustainability and Biodiversity of Life on Earth I recently stumbled upon a recent book dealing with sustainability and the importance of biodiversity to life on Earth. The book is entitled: “The Hidden Universe, Adventures in Biodiversity”, by Alexandre Antonelli, and…
‘Life Series – Final Post’ is the ninth and final part of our ‘Life’ Series This ‘Life Series – Final Post’ is our last post of our series on “Life” and of our discussions of the ideas in Addy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. To avoid spoilers we have decided to leave the last…
Star Island From PLANETOID Trilogy: Book One ‘Star Island’, by Barrie Cameron and published by Seaswell Publishing: NEWS FLASH! Astrophysicist disappears at secret lab in Nevada! “Dr Rebecca Stillwater, recently appointed lead for Artume Project’s new experimental dark energy AXE project has mysteriously disappeared in the middle of prototype apparatus experiment!” In Paris, a specialist…
‘Do Living things have an Agenda?’ is Part Eight of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, ‘Do living things have an agenda?’, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Addy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. Pross describes the teleonomic character of life as its most amazing property. But…
‘Life has Chiralty’ is Part Seven of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, Life has Chiralty, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Addy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. Life has chirality, or ‘handedness’. That is to say that many of the molecules found in living systems (biomolecules)…
‘Is Life in Equilibrium?’ is Part Six of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, Is Life in Equilibrium?, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Andy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. Pross introduced us to the idea that life’s organized complexity represents a thermodynamic puzzle. But related to…
‘Life is Diverse’ is Part Five of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, Life is Diverse, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Addy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. While non-living diversity in the Universe is arbitrary, living diversity appears to be deliberate and coherent. But the macroscopic…
I was inspired to start this new series of blog posts by the question, What is life? So this is the first of a non-fiction science series featuring the subject of Life. For definitions of this topic, see here. If you Google “What is life?” you will get a very long list of references to…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C16_241014: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Sixteen: “Photographs”] Dry River Cave revisited In Chapter Sixteen, “Photographs”, of ‘Star Island‘, Book One of ‘Planetoid Trilogy‘, Jimmy travels to Nevada to inspect the archaeology in the Dry River Cave. He joins Hank and his team and they revisit the cave and view its mysterious contents….