Author: Howard Glicksman
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.