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Books! Also, science, reason, humanism and progress. Molecular biology PhD student.
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I have these two in my shelf. Will bump them up my list!
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The Body by Bryson is great as well. Fortey is one of my favourite writers - loved Trilobite! Survivors, and Close Encounters. Still have one or two others of his to read.
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Ordered, and looking forward to reading it!
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Cheers, dude.
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Looks great!
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Is the first Super Monkey Ball on there?
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200 pages in and this is excellent. It turns out that electrons and other parts of atoms and molecules behave like waves in biological systems (like in photosynthesis and tissue remodelling). Fascinating!
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Indeed!
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Do you really choose to not like that idea, though?
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Hello! I was already on the deterministic side before I read the book. I should read Free Agents by Kevin J Mitchell at some point to hear arguments from the other side. Do you have a position?
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It’s on my radar!
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Morning, Womble. I’m learning about what life on Earth was like 500 million years ago by reading Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould.
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Unbelievable act of self sabotage by the US. Hope Europe can capitalise.
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Amazing that the US is shooting themselves in the foot like this. Hope Europe can capitalise.
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First time reading this classic of the genre. @sciencegoddess.bsky.social, have you read it? Bet you have!
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Hopefully you’ll get the next one. Enjoy the book.
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Nice one! Will add it to my list.
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Great book. Continuing the theme, I also enjoyed Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind by Richard Fortey. Check it out if you’re interested.
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Been enjoying Richard Fortey’s books recently. This one is about the wildlife in a small wood in the Chilterns that he and his family acquired.
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Forget to add the alt text. The last post shows a picture of the hardback edition of Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind sitting on a turquoise pillow.
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Good stuff! Looks like this year’s lectures will be great.
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I love nature. Apart from the parasites, pathogenic bacteria, viruses, virions, fungi, prions, etc., of course.
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Sad to hear this.
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Day one.
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“…but the building blocks of morality clearly predate humanity. We recognise them in our primate relatives…”
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I like the cut of your jib.
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Thank you, but I tend not to read any books that claim a god exists.
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Wowsers!
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Placing non-peelable stickers on books should be made illegal!
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Great book!
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“It’s not unusual for apes to care for an injured companion, slowing down if another lags behind, cleaning another’s wounds, or carrying fruit down from a tree to an elder who has lost her climbing abilities.”
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“Darwin believed, as I do, that our humaneness is grounded in the social instincts that we share with other animals”.
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Pair of wallopers. Mu$k is the more worrying of the two.
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“But if all that people care about is their own good, why does a day-old baby cry when it hears another baby cry? This is how empathy starts”.
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Finished How Life Works today and thought it was excellent. I especially liked the evo-devo and the making/hacking chapters. Overall, the book has given me much food for thought. Thank you for writing it.
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@philipcball.bsky.social Loved chapter 7. Amazing how cells can overcome perturbations when building structures like tubes and embryos. Makes me wonder how details of the ‘goal structures’ are stored. Presumably in the genome somewhere as structures/organisms evolve, but how?