Sublime

FlhDC is one of E. coli’s master switches. It can latch on to many spots along E. coli’s chromosome, where it can switch on a number of genes. These genes make many of the proteins that combine to make flagella.

Meaningful political choices rarely involve a single variable; wise decisions require a composite of political, economic, geographical, technological and psychological insights, all informed by an instinct for history.

We’re therefore stuck between two flawed methods of testing whether power corrupts. The first, which observes power in the real world (as with Ma Anand Sheela) is usually biased by a self-selection effect.

In this sense, cities are an outstanding example of complex adaptive systems: collections of individual constituents (people, in this case) that interact in myriad ways, usually mediated by some sort of network.

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