By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 When we reside in a home for many years, our awareness of the initial steps in design and construction of the home may diminish with the…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Progressive deterioration of physiological function? Children cannot relate to an overwhelming fact of life of the human condition–senescence. The focus of children, instead, is to understand…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Discussion of the characteristics of life is usually linked to qualities of developing, growing, or flourishing. Not often is the topic of life’s decline mentioned in…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Biology textbooks summarize the flow of genetic information as follows: DNAà RNAà Protein. Our two previous posts dealt with the first two elements of this basic…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Many of man’s construction strategies originate from our knowledge of what takes place in the nucleus of living cells. The human DNA molecule, present in virtually…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 To prepare for this post we found ourselves chuckling about the antiquated duplicators of our childhood. In early primary grades our teachers used the ditto machine.…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Radio commentator Paul Harvey (1918-2009) was famous for his “The Rest of the Story” segments. Sometimes people perceive an air of knowledge with clever emphasis on…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Aging people are often distressed to acknowledge their own symptoms of advanced age. Young people prefer that their parents would remain young and vibrant. In a…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Human intuition, an adjunct to scientists’ assembled evidence concerning origins, has received its share of attention to explain how we form our beliefs. When all is…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Curiosity about the physiology of the eye and the function of human vision leads us to inquire more deeply about how such wonders came to be.…
