“Oxygen will run out before we reach outer space? Oh, pooh, such talk of reaching ‘peak oxygen’ just fails to see ballooning will find a way!”. Meanwhile the critics continued to insist that there were fundamental limits to what could be achieved via ballooning and continued to highligh...
Billions are spent each year on prisons and police, while only a fraction is spent on programs for poverty, which is one of the most fundamental variables responsible for crime to begin with. And, as long as we have an economic system, which prefers and in fact creates scarcity deprivation,...
Neutrophils are major circulating innate immune cells in addition to monocytes with potent phagocytic and intracellular killing activity due to the generation of highly reactive oxygen species (ROS) [85,85,86,87,89]. Microarray data has shown the upregulation of 2248 gene transcripts in neutrophils ...
And the same could be said for consciousness, and selfhood. (What Eric calls the soul; although I don't like to call it that, since the word has strong metaphysical implications that I don't like.) I think a lot of people are troubled by the idea of consciousness as "merely" a pro...