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We are passionate defenders of allowing scientists to conduct their research with as few limits on intellectual curiosity as possible, and calling for a ban is not something that we do often or lightly. However, every rule has exceptions, and this is one of them. Unless compelling evidence emerges showing that mirror bacteria do not pose unacceptab... See more

John Glass • Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Dozens of Scientists Warn

All the low-hanging fruit has already been picked. For example, element 117 was discovered by an international collaboration who got an unstable isotope of berkelium from the single accelerator in Tennessee capable of synthesizing it, shipped it to a nuclear reactor in Russia where it was attached to a titanium film, brought it to a particle accele... See more

Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex) • Is Science Slowing Down?

Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence (2nd Edition)

Ellis Silver

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developing fat-filled livers and creating foie gras right inside of our own bodies.

Paul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)

The physicist Geoffrey West of the Santa Fe Institute made a remarkable discovery about cities.

Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

The Jesuit and the Skull

Amir Aczel

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many diseases are caused by bacteria, we’ve learned to become fearful of them, even to the point of washing with antibacterial soap that we’re told will eliminate 99.9 percent of them. But in fact most bacteria, which comprise the majority of single-celled organisms, are harmless to humans and thrive virtually everywhere on Earth. Tiny as they are,

Jeremy Lent • The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe

Further refinements of electron microscopy techniques brought them into startlingly sharp focus. Brilliantly exploiting Claude’s techniques, a “small band of explorers” at the Rockefeller, most notably Keith Porter, Christian de Duve, and George Palade, were shocked by how many new structures they found. There was the ribosome (which Francis Crick

Dan Levitt • What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

Daniel J. Boorstin

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