Tranquillity in Self-Destruction

Fighting foreigners prevents self-destruction

Intimacy is a cellular turn-on he simple act of coming closer together ignites signaling pathways in epithelial cells, as shown and colleagues. The results describe how cells might activate cellular responses to T mechanical stress. Cells are pushed closer together by physical forces. In the lung, for instance, epithelial cells feel the pressure from underlying muscle tissue, particularly in as...

Self-sacrifice and self-destruction. A christian looks at suicide.

Beliefs, self-destruction, and the rational mind

This is a book, both comprehensive and thought-provoking, with a timely thesis that is a “must read” for anyone interested in human behavior and our collective future. Matthew Blakeway takes the view that our brains are biological computers with algorithms for action. But what if the algorithms are based on faulty data? What if our actions, based on our beliefs, are a product of causal circular...

Detecting Macroevolutionary Self-Destruction from Phylogenies.

Phylogenetic analyses have lent support to the concept of lineage selection: that biological lineages can have heritable traits that influence their capacity to persist and diversify, and thereby affect their representation in biodiversity. While many discussions have focused on "positive" lineage selection, where stably heritable properties of lineages enhance their diversification rate, there...

Downstream Self-Destruction of Storm Tracks

The Northern Hemisphere storm tracks have maximum intensity over the Pacific and Atlantic basins; their intensity is reduced over the continents downstream. Here, simulations with an idealized aquaplanet general circulation model are used to demonstrate that even without continents, storm tracks have a self-determined longitudinal length scale. Their length is controlled primarily by the planet...