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johan-nygren (63)in #society • 5 years ago
Contrasting "big lies" to "big labels"
Amos Oz defined a fanatic as unable to comprehend what they themselves say, because they don't really mean it (but still say it!) That's the thing with calling people…
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johan-nygren (63)in #chemistry • 5 years ago
Osmosis as a result of hydronium electrochemical gradient from gel-phase water, (H3O2-)n
Charge-wise, the gel-phase water on either side of the membrane behave as a single negatively charged mass. The hydronium ions that are excluded from the gel (analogous to…
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johan-nygren (63)in #biology • 5 years ago
An electromotive theory of capillary exchange
Gerald Pollack has shown that water at contact surfaces will organize into a "gel-phase", analogous to ice but without the hydrogen protons that bond the lattice sheets…
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johan-nygren (63)in #biology • 5 years ago
The role of systole and diastole in capillary exchange
The Starling balance defines how fluid pressure pushes plasma out of the capillaries, until it is in an equilibrium with the oncotic pressure. I think one factor tends to be…
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johan-nygren (63)in #biology • 5 years ago
The evolution of the lymphatic system as a necessary part of transcapillary circulation
Functional necessity is the mother of structural innovation. The origin of the interstitial venous system, or “lymphatic system”, is as a structure to compensate for the increase…
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johan-nygren (63)in #biology • 5 years ago
On the origin of the human species as a memetic animal
I am of the opinion that the human face is a primary “memetic organ”, to our ideas, beliefs - memes - what our opposable thumbs are to manipulating objects in the physical world.…
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johan-nygren (63)in #biology • 5 years ago
Evolution of the face as a memetic organ
The facial muscles are evolutionarily descended from the gill arches in ancestral aquatic vertebrates, and this is seen during the development of the human embryo where five gill…
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johan-nygren (63)in #logos • 5 years ago
"generatio spontanea" as a logical fallacy
After a gun shots to the head, is the bleeding as a symptom "spontaneously generated", or, is there any causality with the projectile bullet that travels at 3000 km/h interacting…
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johan-nygren (63)in #biology • 5 years ago
What causes the flow of K+ and Na+ during action potentials?
In its resting state, the cell prefers to bind K+. When activated, conformational changes within the gelatinous protein-water matrix of the cell gain a higher affinity for Na+.…
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johan-nygren (63)in #biology • 5 years ago
Gilbert Ling and "water membranes"
Gilbert Ling ( Wikipedia:Gilbert_Ling ) who developed the electrodes that Andrew Huxley (Aldous Huxley's brother) later used in his experiments around nerve signals. Ling spent…
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johan-nygren (63)in #biology • 5 years ago
Evolutionary developmental biology of the the lymphatic system, the "interstitial venous system"
Transportation of molecules and nutrients to the body by the vascular system includes extra-vascular plasma transportation. Perfusion of the tissues happens as blood is pumped…
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johan-nygren (63)in #logos • 5 years ago
The logical fallacy to conflate cause and effect
is quite common. Spontaneous generation theory for infections is a good historical example. Another example is the "action potential", the voltage when certain processes are…
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johan-nygren (63)in #biology • 5 years ago
"Water membranes"
The cell is more negatively charged at −70 mV compared to the extracellular fluid because it has more structured water: water in the form of an hydroxide-rich “gel”, with a…
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johan-nygren (63)in #biology • 5 years ago
The sixth phase of water, Mark LeClair's work
There is a fifth phase of water, or sixth if plasma is included and Pollack's gel-phase. Marc LeClair discovered it. ( video ) He punctured gas ("cavitation") bubbles in water…
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johan-nygren (63)in #biology • 5 years ago
Hypothesis: Archaic biospheres "sweat" their own water by chemosynthesis
An idea I had a few years ago that I still find interesting, is that water is a product of the biosphere, from archaic life using chemosynthesis, 12H2S + 6CO2 → C6H12O6 (sugar…
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johan-nygren (63)in #biology • 5 years ago
"Water chemistry" and the environment of life
Acid-base reactions, osmosis and other colligative properties, the bicarbonate buffer system, can all be categorized under the broader topic of "water chemistry", the…
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johan-nygren (63)in #biology • 5 years ago
Osmosis explained, Gerald Pollack's brilliant work
Water in solid form is 1 atom thick crystals of 3xH2O + 3xOH-, with 3xH3O+ between the sheets, holding them together. Water in "gel-phase" is 1 atom thick crystals of 3xH2O +…
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johan-nygren (63)in #physiology • 5 years ago
paradigm shift from Huxley's cross-bridge model of sarcomere contraction
Huxley suggested the "sliding filament theory" in 1953 and later went on to suggest the "cross-bridge theory" in 1969. I observed while studying very basic things for med. school…
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johan-nygren (63)in #psychiatry • 5 years ago
Executive function is not mental (although it can involve mental processes), the mind cannot "spontaneously disorder itself"
Mental illness or "meme illness" is caused by loss of executive function, analogous to loss of organ function in any other organ such as the liver or the kidney. This loss of…
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johan-nygren (63)in #nakamoto • 5 years ago
Etymological analysis of -archy, and proof that the Nakamoto consensus is not an-archy
If you look at the word "arch", it means, sort of, support structure. ἄρχω, "beginning", also "authority" (story from beginning to end). Bitcoin, often associated with the absenc…
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