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This voyage is my own attempt, as a biochemist, to find the inner meaning of the Krebs cycle: why it is still spinning at the very heart of life and death today.
Nick Lane • Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
oxygen levels are low, one prong consumes NADH (shown here as 2H) while the other generates it. Together, they maintain a poise between the donors and acceptors of 2H, while allowing a little ATP synthesis on the side.
Nick Lane • Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
In the 1930s, Max Kleiber, a Swiss agricultural biologist, observed that, across mammal species, from shrews to elephants, the energy required to maintain basic metabolic function is closely correlated with an organism’s body size.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Between Entities and Identities: The Internet of Egregores
By promoting self-organization, energy flux gradually converts a clump of mindless molecules into information-processing machinery with agency—meaning the self-drive and purposeful action that we associate with life.