crates | March 24, 2009
Today, while on a walk I was staring at the pipe where my little stream exits after traveling beneath and across the road. The stream parallels the road for most of the way down to the beach, and just before the beach is reached, the stream enters a large concrete pipe, travels beneath the road, and [...]
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Tags: Add new tag, cellular differentiation, complex systems, emergent properties, laminar flow, quantum mechanics, stochastic processes, the big bang, turbulence
crates | March 9, 2009
I’m sure that most people have thought about this question at one time or another. The answer that a person arrives at will determine his attitude towards various practices in our society. Does a person become a person at fertilization of the egg? We know that the oocyte is alive and that the spermatozoan is [...]
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Tags: abortion, Add new tag, brain development, ethics, genetic drift, nature, personhood
