Philipmarais

LATEST ARTICLES ( 8 )

• The Second Law of Thermodynamics and a Theory of the Origin of Life Itself

  

  I have in all my time of reading science, and science news, never quite experienced the absolute abstraction of objectivity, as I did this morning. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, SCIENCE

• Sugar! The Devil That Prayer is Not Saving You from

  

  Early warning Sugar addiction has been correlated with the increase in per capita consumption of sugar and other high-glycemic-index compounds such as corn syru... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, SCIENCE

• How the Second Law of Thermodymics Trancends All of Biology

  

  How biology is failing biology I have spent a vast selection of my personal and professional time wondering about the one-dimensional representation of... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, SCIENCE

• Coding the Weasel.

  

  I recently took up reading yet another of Richard Dawkins’ works on evolutionary biology, “The Blind Watchmaker”, something I have neglected since I reread... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2013 BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, SCIENCE

• On the Evolution of Immortality

  The average human lifespan has significantly increased in the last couple of hundred years, prompting suspicion of a potential evolutionary trend towards... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2012 SCIENCE

• On Cheating. A Scientific Perspective.

  The very recent past has not been kind to one of history’s most celebrated sporting achievers. Lance Armstrong faces defamation of a legacy that has recorded... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2012 SCIENCE

• The Scientific Discipline

  Wherever there exists ambition to exceed, there is an accompanying potential for failure, directly proportional to the level of difficulty associated with... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2012 SCIENCE

• Brontosaurus Dolly: Feasibility of Dinosaur Cloning?

  In response to an off topic question, posed during a research methodology lecture, I was humbled by the response of one logically minded undergraduate. Can we... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2012 SCIENCE