“Stages of Evolution of Plant Species” , from the Whole Earth Catalog , Spring 1970.
“Stages of Evolution of Plant Species” , from the Whole Earth Catalog , Spring 1970.
An interesting visualization technique for showing lineage.
Latest Res Extensa , on our natural genetic wiring to explore, and its biological benefits of asymmetric bets:
Map of humanmetabolic pathways.
(via @burny_tech)
Carl Röhrig draws the immune system.
An basic explanation of the evolutionary process.
The Eden Project is a complex of geodesic domes housing different biomes — a Mediterranean climate, and the world’s largest indoor rainforest. An island of foreign terrain in a retired mining pit in cold Cornwall, England.
Illustrations by naturalistErnst Haeckel.
From his collection Kunstformen der Natur.
Environmental challenge + gradual adaptation + eons of time = magic.
Raising less money, the many uses for a screwdriver, and the importance of relentless incremental progress.
How 'tinkering' improves robustness.
How Figma built their multiplayer tech, rice vs. wheat and influence on culture, and how tuft cells communicate threats to the immune system.
Spicy foods and evolution, Humboldt's maps, and picking apart income taxes.
Neuralink's launch event for their brain-computer interface device.
T cells for immunotherapy, engineering new proteins with Jupyter Notebooks, and Spatial Networks named as a top workplace.
Reviewing David Quammen's 'The Tangled Tree', rethinking new discoveries in evolutionary biology.
Artforms in nature from biologist Ernst Haeckel.
A conversation between Bret Weinstein and Sam Harris on biology, culture, and religion.