George S's List: Science & Technology

• Unlike humans, the digestive tract of gorillas is equipped to manufacture the essential amino acids and other vital nutrients. The human digestive system is not so equipped and we must rely on animal proteins.
• It is interesting to note that advocates of vegetarian diets who use the diet of apes as a rational to support their food choice–asserting that the ape diet is more “natural”–fail to advocate eating a diet of all-raw plant foods as the apes do.
• Of course, due to modern technology, many of the essential nutrients can be supplied by synthetic or processed products, but these merely duplicate what is naturally in animal protein and are often extracted from them. To be on the safe side, it is wise to procure essential nutrients from their best source–animal protein.
• Likewise, in India where beef was widely eaten at an earlier time in history, the Hindu religion prohibited it because the cow was more valuable for its milk and dung than as edible beef. Milk from the cow provided animal protein and the dung provided fuel for the fires to cook food. Religious sanctions are a very powerful societal force of control.
• Eat a variety of fresh animal protein and fats, a wide variety of fresh vegetables, fruits and nuts and whole grain breads and cereals.

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• a social activist and a humanitarian

• "I THINK therefore I am," said Descartes. Perhaps he should have added: "I act, therefore I think."
• The new results suggest that our bodies are also exploited to produce abstract thought, and that even seemingly inconsequential activities have the power to influence our thinking.
• linguist and philosopher George Lakoff
• philosopher Mark Johnson
• "metaphor theory"
• In 2008, for example, researchers found that people made to feel socially excluded reported feeling physically colder.

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• Experiments in mice and other nonhuman animals are necessary but not sufficient for medical advances in human regenerative medicine. There are substantial biological differences between animal and human development and between animal and human stem cells, although the full range of similarities and differences is not understood.

  • Saw an episode on Oprah about regenerative medicine today, so I thought it'd be neat to do some further research on the topic. If I ever invest in any stocks, I'll be sure to look out for companies dealing with this! Regenerative medicine is truly remarkable!
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