Tongues and taste buds allow humans to taste and appreciate the nuances of all types of ingredients in recipes and beverages from around the world. Plus the human ability to vocalize and speak over 6000 languages. Our tongues, along with the palate and insides of the...
Blood and the Breath of Oxygen from the heart and lungs working together in perfect harmony maintain life. Two itty-bitty organs weighing 1.6 kilos (2 bottles of wine) … that’s all there is! We can see the outlines of the veins, heart, and lungs in...
The human body defies imagination. We take it for granted. Seven billion on the planet all functioning identically yet, each one unique. How can that be? Bodies Alive We are inside a doctor’s waiting room, passing the time by reading through health and fitness or...
The number of genes in living organisms, humans, animals, flora does NOT correlate with intelligence. Some plants have many more genes than mankind. How do you explain that? One thing we can say for sure is that genes are certainly not the central focus of heredity. A...
Epigenetics, the study of ‘junk genes’, has made science realize they actually regulate the genes themselves. They are at the origin of ‘gene expression’, turning genes ‘on’ and ‘off.’ We’ve discussed how DNA has a...