Origins Of Life

There is so much internet trash — an immense landfill of refuse — it is very difficult to sort through it all to find that lost bejeweled diadem of truth lost at some reckless point in time… There has been so much garbage dumped on the world since the beginning…

Two Predictions about the Distribution of Life in the Universe — There is a rule in software development called the zero one infinity rule, or ZOI, originally formulated by Willem van der Poel, according to which a process should be completely disallowed, or allowed only once, or no limit should be placed on the number of times it occurs. This is…

In the beginnings of human experience, art and literature had a special importance for us who strive to understand who we are and where we came from. In prehistoric days, (that is to say) days before we began writing our history, some of our primitive ancestors drew pictures on cave…

Hello! Welcome to the first log, which I am admittedly posting quite late and retroactively. This covers the resources I used, questions I had, and tentative answers I derived/found during this week (March 29 — Apr 2). This week I mainly got started learning basic Biochemistry and understanding the main…

From the big bang to human civilization — a. The concept of biological evolution ‘Evolution’ in biology is a general term for the understanding we have of how reproduction in organic life works. The core insight, obvious enough to be almost instinctive, is that offspring are related to their parents, and traits of lineages can be selected for…

Free convection is an important process in fluid dynamics. Yet Russ Hobbie and I rarely discuss it in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology. It appears only once, in a homework problem analyzing Rayleigh-Benard convection cells. How does free convection work? If water is heated from below, it expands as…

July 1, 2020 — As a lifelong left-handed person I’m not sure if I should be offended by this interesting discovery about how life is based on right-handedness. The basic molecular construct of our existence, the double-helix we call DNA, it turns out appears to spiral always to the right…

April 25, 2020 — Did you know that sugars are right-handed, amino acids left-handed, and the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) step ladder helix coils to the right? This commonality is called homochirality. All life as we know it is characterized by this commonality of carbon atoms forming chiral molecules. …

When we were conceived, when our mothers’ egg was fertilized, a bright spark of life was created. We grew in our mothers bellies, safe and secure until we were born into the world. We were nursed, and we grew. At some point we became self aware. …