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Corals and Gobies: A Symbiotic Love Story

Linda Maa
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Coral reefs, which are threatened across the world's oceans, send messages to certain fish to come save them.  (more)

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The Bio-Net

Jeffrey Fish
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Scientists have modified a harmless virus, enabling it to transmit messages from one cell to another. (more)

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Origins of Life

Jeffrey Fish
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Micro-organisms riding on fragments of planetary debris might have been the first life to populate earth. (more)

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Fortunate Flaws in Evolution 


stefaniesara
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A 500 million year old genetic “error” led to the evolution of humanity and other vertebrates.

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Communal Microbes 


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Communal microbes reveal the evolutionary advantage of living and working together. (more)

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Life as Art: The Legacy of Lynn Margulis

Simon G. Powell
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In the wake of Margulis's work, it is clear that relentless competition is not the sole theme of life. We have to acknowledge symbiosis as a key operating principle of life on Earth and install that operating principle within our culture. (more)

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Lost World: Antarctica

Chris Kaplan
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A new ecosystem is discovered under the vast depths of Antarctica. (more)

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Brains in a Vat

Jay Van Liere
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A new scientific development conjures up sci-fi images of Rutger Hauer’s android in Blade Runner – lab-cultured eyes, brain parts, and glands. (more)

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As Above, So Below: The Worldview of Lynn Margulis

Conner Habib
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Biologist and geoscientist Lynn Margulis composed a grand and powerful view of the living and the non-living through her uncanny ability to lean forward and see the smallest inhabitants of the Earth and then to leap back at the speed of thought to conceptualize the entire planet. This seeing from soil to space marked a unique scientific endeavor. (more)

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The Unsung Intelligence of Life's Web

Simon G. Powell
simonthumb.jpgThe closer one examines life the more apparent does natural intelligence become. Like brilliant ideas and hypotheses made literal flesh in space and time, natural intelligence is what you see when you look down a microscope at a cell. The genetic code is itself an expression of natural intelligence. Codes are the hallmark of intelligent activity. Nature got there first.  (more)
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The Field: The Reality of Things

Massimo Citro M.D.
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Every physical body can be seen as an event that is constantly changing on the world stage; the director of the changes is the quantum field, which the ancient sages identified with fire. The atom is an abyss. Mass itself does not exist. What exists is attraction and repulsion between different polarities of charge, "breathing emptiness." (more)

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Self As City, City As Self

Michael Garfield
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This year at Burning Man's Entheon Village, I gave a talk on how evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, philosophy, architecture, and art challenge our constructed categories of "individual" and "collective," pointing us toward a new understanding of the self as a multitude and our communities as living, sentient beings. (more)

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Self As City, City As Self

Michael Garfield
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This year at Burning Man's Entheon Village, I gave a talk on how evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, philosophy, architecture, and art challenge our constructed categories of "individual" and "collective," pointing us toward a new understanding of the self as a multitude and our communities as living, sentient beings.  (Transcript of the talk with links to audio and video...)
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Bacteria Are Winning the Battle

Marisa Smith
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The rise of multi-drug-resistant bacteria forecasts a world without antibiotics, and shakes the foundations of modern medicine. (more)

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Easy Ultraviolet Life

Chris Kaplan
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The creation of life on Earth may have been easier than originally thought. (more)

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Photosynthetic Slugs

Matt Toussaint
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A green sea slug is the first known animal to effectively produce chlorophyll and photosynthesize like a plant. (more)

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Bacteria Make Decisions

Kovvy
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While bacteria might not exactly do what one might call thinking, they have been known to exhibit the ability to make complex decisions. (more)

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Evolutionary Disorders

Chris Kaplan
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New findings in evolutionary biology look to explain the recent rise of certain disorders. (more)

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The Spooky World Of Quantum Biology

Michael Garfield
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It wasn’t until the nineties that anyone suggested biology could be better understood by looking at it through the lens of quantum theory. Now, a new kind of science, called “quantum biology,” is beginning to emerge -- and it could change everything we know, again. (more)

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