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@johan-nygren Mar 19, 2020, 10:53 PM UTC

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 "pathological", it becomes so "b…

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johan-nygren
@johan-nygren Mar 19, 2020, 2:22 AM UTC

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 "ionized ice"), are in prop…

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johan-nygren
@johan-nygren Mar 18, 2020, 10:31 PM UTC

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 vertically (Pollack, 2013). Th…

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johan-nygren
@johan-nygren Mar 18, 2020, 4:07 PM UTC

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 overlooked, differences i…

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johan-nygren
@johan-nygren Mar 17, 2020, 4:36 PM UTC

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 in hydrostatic press…

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johan-nygren
@johan-nygren Mar 17, 2020, 3:47 PM UTC

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. The evolution of the…

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johan-nygren
@johan-nygren Mar 17, 2020, 2:37 AM UTC

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 arches, called branc…

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johan-nygren
@johan-nygren Mar 16, 2020, 1:09 PM UTC

"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 with the head? What…

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johan-nygren
@johan-nygren Mar 14, 2020, 11:38 PM UTC

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+. Bound K+ is replaced w…

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johan-nygren
@johan-nygren Mar 14, 2020, 9:53 PM UTC

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 his life disproving domi…

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