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Death By Design; introduction to cell biology
Topic Started: Dec 12 2010, 01:13 AM (658 Views)
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Death by design is a documentary that takes a closer look at the way our cells work and is an excellent introduction to cell biology.

It’s counter-intuitive that there’s all this waste, that you would produce millions of animals so that only a few thousand would survive. Or you’d produce billions of spermatozoa so that only one will fertilize the egg. In the same way the fact that you produce so many cells during development that die and never serve a useful function in the animal. It’s counter-intuitive that there’d be this waste but it turns out that over and over again biologists have learned that this is how biology works.

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5. The Woman Who Thinks Like A Cow

http://www.documentary-log.com/d234-death-by-design/
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...The woman who thinks like a cow?
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LOL, I saw that too!
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'Mass wasteage' in an insurance policy. As long as the sperm or eggs aren't too expensive in biomass terms, millions can be made.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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I saw that I think. Wasn't that the woman who invented that machine to restrain and calm autisitics?
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What has calming autistics got to do with a cow? :o
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Temple Grandin invented that cow-calming stuff.

It has to do with sensation, etc... there are parallels between how autistic people percieve the world and how animals percieve the world.

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'Mass wasteage' in an insurance policy. As long as the sperm or eggs aren't too expensive in biomass terms, millions can be made.


Exactly. So many sperm are made, because there's no garuntee that one of them will reach the egg...
A hard mathematical figure provides a sort of enlightenment to one's understanding of an idea that is never matched by mere guesswork.
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Dec 12 2010, 02:45 PM
Temple Grandin invented that cow-calming stuff.

It has to do with sensation, etc... there are parallels between how autistic people percieve the world and how animals percieve the world.
Are these parallels greater than those between a 'normal' human and a non-human animal?
From what i know of autism, the activities in the brain are still trademark human.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Well "nonhuman animal" really covers a wiiiiide choice of brains.
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None quite like ours though. :P
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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