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The protected overmatched, overran, and paralyzed the government.
Steven Brill • Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It
professor later explained that these were “Fermi
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
GBIRd wanted Thomas’s help designing a very particular kind of mouse drive—a so-called “suppression drive.” A suppression drive is designed to defeat natural selection entirely. Its purpose is to spread a trait so deleterious that it can wipe out a population. Researchers in Britain have already engineered a suppression drive for Anopheles gambiae
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, created viruses with radioactive tracers in their DNA. They allowed the viruses to infect E. coli and then pulled off their empty husks in a fast-spinning centrifuge.
Carl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
bucolic.
Kai Bird • American Prometheus
the human megaphone is in full swing.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
vicissitudes
Kai Bird • American Prometheus
Weltanschauung