Essay Based on Quentin Reynolds’ book The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American Aviation, by Kira H
“When you two say you’re going to do something, you do it.” –Kate Wright to Wilbur and Orville Two brothers from the 19th century, Wilbur …
Science
Biology Books
If you are interested, here are most of the books I’ve read/listened to on biology and related topics. They are important, because only in biology …
Biology: It’s Not Just Competition
“It’s not that symbiosis occasionally occurs in nature; it’s that everywhere, at every level of complexity, symbiosis makes what we call nature possible.” — Moises …
Just Walk
Just walk — especially in the woods. (Well, don’t only walk, but walk in addition to your other exercise.) In “8 Ways Walking Changes Your …
The Ideal Gas Law (van der Waals Correction) and Disease Spread
In “The scaling of contact rates with population density for the infectious disease models” (Mathematical Biosciences, Volume 244, Issue 2, August 2013, Pages 125-134), Hoa …
Population Density and Disease
In “Infectious Diseases and Human Population History: Throughout history the establishment of disease has been a side effect of the growth of civilization” (BioScience Vol. …
Agriculture and Disease
In “The origin of human pathogens: evaluating the role of agriculture and domestic animals in the evolution of human disease,” Dr. Jessica Pearce-Duvet (Biology Department, …
Vaccines: Pro or Con?
To make good decisions and recommendations regarding vaccines, and before we are pro or con, we should understand them. And that means vknowing the essence …
Some Philosophy of Science
“Science, indeed, is nothing more than the conceptual unravelling of sensory data; it has no other primary evidence from which to proceed.” —Dr. Leonard Peikoff