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How can we make sense of our lives, and hold people accountable for their choices, given the unconscious origins of our conscious minds?
Sam Harris • Free Will
Tatum pelted colonies of E. coli with enough X-rays to kill 9,999 of every 10,000 bacteria. Among the few survivors he discovered mutants that could grow only if he supplied them with a particular amino acid. Helped along, the mutants could even reproduce, and their offspring were just as crippled. Tatum had gotten the same results as he had with
... See moreCarl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
A Crack In Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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Each of them knows innumerable minute, local truths.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
records the unfolding episodes of our daily lives.
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
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Tim Ferriss • Ferramentas dos Titãs (Portuguese Edition)
DNA passes on information with extraordinary fidelity. It makes only about one error per every billion letters copied. Still, because your cells divide so much, that is about three errors, or mutations, per cell division. Most of those mutations the body can ignore, but just occasionally they have lasting significance. That is evolution.
