Man or beast? Man and beast!

Man versus beast: pharmacokinetic scaling in mammals.

Land mammals range in size from the 3-g shrew to the 3000-kg elephant. Despite this 10(6) range in weight, most land mammals have similar anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and cellular structure. This similarity has allowed interspecies scaling of physiologic properties such as heart rate, blood flow, blood volume, organ size, and longevity. The equation that is the basis for scaling physiolog...

Beauty and the Beast

Is it really true that “All Scripture is inspired by God?” (2 Ti 3:16). Some feminist theologians argue that the Bible is nothing but male-centered works that are critically tainted with androcentrism. Nevertheless, the belief that the Bible was written completely by the revelation of God has legalized that the rights of women have been oppressed by the biased Christian doctrines. Today feminis...

Man vs beast the human-animal boundary in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

What rough beast?

Synthetic biology seeks to create modular biological parts that can be assembled into useful devices, allowing the modification of biological systems with greater reliability, at lower cost, with greater speed, and by a larger pool of people than has been the case with traditional genetic engineering. We assess the offensive and defensive security implications of synthetic biology based on the ...

Taming the Beast Within