May 24, 2024 • #
“Stages of Evolution of Plant Species” , from the Whole Earth Catalog , Spring 1970.
Topic / biology
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Circle of Life
May 6, 2024 • #An interesting visualization technique for showing lineage.
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April 19, 2024 • #
Latest Res Extensa , on our natural genetic wiring to explore, and its biological benefits of asymmetric bets:
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April 7, 2024 • #
Map of humanmetabolic pathways.
(via @burny_tech)
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March 20, 2024 • #
Carl Röhrig draws the immune system.
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Evolution Has No Goal
February 27, 2024 • #An basic explanation of the evolutionary process.
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February 24, 2024 • #
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.
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February 22, 2024 • #
Illustrations by naturalistErnst Haeckel.
From his collection Kunstformen der Natur.
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January 27, 2024 • #
Environmental challenge + gradual adaptation + eons of time = magic.
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Weekend Reading: Raising Less, the Adjacent Possible, and Fire and Motion
August 15, 2020 • #Raising less money, the many uses for a screwdriver, and the importance of relentless incremental progress.
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Antifragility and Tinkering in Biology (and in Business) Flexibility Provides an Efficient Epigenetic Way to Manage Risk
November 27, 2019 • #How 'tinkering' improves robustness.
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Weekend Reading: Figma Multiplayer, Rice vs. Wheat, and Tuft Cells
November 23, 2019 • #How Figma built their multiplayer tech, rice vs. wheat and influence on culture, and how tuft cells communicate threats to the immune system.
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Weekend Reading: Darwinian Gastronomy, Humboldt, and Taxes
November 16, 2019 • #Spicy foods and evolution, Humboldt's maps, and picking apart income taxes.
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Neuralink
July 17, 2019 • #Neuralink's launch event for their brain-computer interface device.
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Weekend Reading: T Cells, Creating Proteins, and SNI Awards
April 6, 2019 • #T cells for immunotherapy, engineering new proteins with Jupyter Notebooks, and Spatial Networks named as a top workplace.
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The Origin and Transmutation of Species
February 10, 2019 • #Reviewing David Quammen's 'The Tangled Tree', rethinking new discoveries in evolutionary biology.
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Kunstformen der Natur
December 21, 2018 • #Artforms in nature from biologist Ernst Haeckel.
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Biology and Culture
November 23, 2018 • #A conversation between Bret Weinstein and Sam Harris on biology, culture, and religion.
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