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It also allow a more efficient use of resources.. why have two things when one is enough?

I think "random" can be more accurately defined as being unpredictable

Is it possible future humans will live much longer from evolution due to women having children much later?

It sounds like evolution at work

Life needs nitrogen as well! All those nitrogen atoms in proteins had to come from somewhere.. http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/N/NitrogenCycle.html

Some research has shown that if either of your parents had their height development restricted by diet, it is a trait that can be passed to you (quite a violation of inheritence). I'm sure I read it in Newscientist..

The weird thing is I always thought this was how cattle was brought up, until I saw a documentary on TV about an outbreak of food poisoning and they showed how these beasts really live... in their own squalor and waste

I *think* I remember hearing something about a study that showed just thinking about working out was able to increase muscle mass.. was this true?

If you're getting sunburnt then yes, as it means your skin is damaged! Remember: Sun leads to burns.. Burns leads to cancer.. Cancer leads to suffering..

Take this as a personal anecdote, but I'm short sighted and my eyes become worse during the exam period.. every exam period! I don't think its because of anything specific like TV or a computer monitor, but staring at anything in close range for long periods of time. It's probably genetic as well.

And that the chinese had "discovered" it only a thousand years before that: http://www.timelinescience.org/resource/students/blood/blood.htm

Photosynthesis .. if this is solved, we're saved!*

i'm not sure.. but apparently chemically produced saturated fats (like margarine) often contain chemical bonds that are completely unlike anything produced in nature. I think it was "trans" double bonds or something?

Not really.. I think the closest thing we have is testosterone patches - more aggression in all aspects of life, be it on the road, at work, or .. in the bed.

Don't we have fields because simply because we can't reduce everything down to its essence? Imagine trying to do behavioral work on animals based purely on biochemisty. Or another step up, studying the sharemarket using biochem! Not quite there yet.. And you might as well go the whole way...