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ubiquitous RNA-destroying enzymes—ribonucleases—
Thomas R. Cech • The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
Tim Urban • Page Not Found — Wait But Why
Margulis was intrigued by the fact that the mitochondria in cells have their own genes. Mitochondria are the cells’ intracellular power factories and supply the energy for all living metabolism. Standard theory had it that only the genes in the nucleus of cells had any importance; the genes in mitochondria were considered irrelevant. Margulis
... See moreStephen Harrod Buhner • The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth
His seven-year-old brain fires and rewires, building arborized axons, dendrites, those tiny spreading trees.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Security Check - Orion Magazine
orionmagazine.org"We didn't get to vote on whether to take human genes and put them in animals, which they're doing through genetic engineering.... Do we really want unlimited genetic engineering of humans, of animals, of plants? Do we really want our generation and the generations to come after us to view the entire animal kingdom as so many machines to be
... See moreDean Ornish M.D. • The Food Revolution
He wondered whether certain animals might not share some kind of ‘group mind’, which he described as a ‘sort of psychic blueprint between members of a species’. Might not all species, he suggested, be linked together in a ‘cosmic mind’ that was capable of carrying evolutionary information through time and space?