Sublime

In a tragic coda to this early story of eugenics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was still enmeshed in the controversy over eugenics as recently as January 2019, this time through the disgraceful racist utterances of Nobel laureate James D. Watson, cofounder of the DNA double helix and one of the laboratory’s longtime fellows, whom they stripped of

and pure epidemiology,

Based on his own interviews, it’s clear that Church qualifies as an “energetic alien”. After finishing his undergrad in 2 years, George Church  worked 100 hour weeks  in the lab during grad school, famously getting kicked out due to not attending classes because he was just so absorbed in his research. This level of focus seems to be som

“longevity escape velocity”: the point at which science extends life for more than a year for every year that a human is alive.

Cancer as a Metabolic Disease by Thomas Seyfried: required reading for all of Dom’s students Tripping Over the Truth by Travis Christofferson: Dom has gifted this to seven or eight people over the last year The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis Collins

As stated by Jim Peebles, professor

Mendelian randomization,