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nossa capacidade de entender e manipular genomas humanos altera nossa concepção do que significa ser “humano”.
Siddhartha Mukherjee • O gene: Uma história íntima (Portuguese Edition)
In my war with the Monsanto machine, the advocates of genetically modified organisms (transgenics) kept countering me with benefit analyses (which were often bogus and doctored up), not tail risk analyses for repeated exposures.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
One after another, the greatest figures in physics seemed to develop an unexpected late-career interest in the mystery of life itself, even taking abrupt shifts toward the formal study of biology.
Fei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
When the pandemic hit, Cowen and Collison, the founder of Stripe, set up a separate grant programme to fund research. The pair had raised and spent millions before larger bodies managed to respond. One large grant went to Anne Wylie, who developed saliva tests for covid-19. Though Wylie was a researcher at the Yale School of Public Health, and atta... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
La razón disruptiva: Antología compilada por Guillermo Hurtado (Spanish Edition)
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