Sublime

So Just Who Are These People?

Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections

TERT (standing for telomerase reverse transcriptase)

Thomas R. Cech • The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets

As scientists and engineers repeat almost like a rosary: earthquakes don’t kill people; buildings kill people.

Rebecca Skloot • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015

much-maligned

Eugene V. Koonin • The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution (FT Press Science)

Often several copies and

David Uhlman • Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use

capacious

Elizabeth Kolbert • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Smart Brevity is contagious.

Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity

There are, however, on this planet phenomena that are hidden in plain sight. These are the phenomena that we study as complex systems: the convoluted exhibitions of the adaptive world—from cells to societies.

Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)

Science, I tell myself in my inner Jeff Goldblum voice, finds a way.