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Aug 3, 2022
Some notes on A. whisleri that I've somehow salvaged from the fires of hell
"Few quests are so magical as that of the origins of life." L. Margulis Notes on A. whisleri: A kaleidoscope of changing cell shapes was...
Apr 15, 2022
Pathless path
I am in Madrid mofo. Admittedly, even though I’m in a new city, there are days when my feelings would still vacillate back and forth...
Mar 24, 2022
Superstar scientoast
Before I left Manila, for half a year ago or so, I was freaking out, constantly double-checking the damn bureaucratic paperwork piled up...
Dec 7, 2021
evo devo oh no
On: Thinking about Evolution Today and Science Friction Last week, I was busy helping Helen, one of my PIs, organize a science exhibition...
May 10, 2021
Dear Charlie
Dear Charlie, Although you're still in your junior year in graduate school, I hope you're already thinking about insane research ideas...
Aug 18, 2020
Cosmic Consciousness
I would have been a huge fan of those Gaia theorists like Lovelock and Margulis had I been born an optimist. Those people really know...
Jul 6, 2020
Degrees of Freedom
I…want to live in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one...
Jun 13, 2020
Battle of the Memes
Ju-jutsu (or “the art of suppleness”), as its name implies is based upon the principal of softness or elasticity to hardness or...
Jun 1, 2020
The Playbook
Your mind is the starting point of all war and strategy. A mind that is easily overwhelmed by emotion, that is rooted in the past instead...
May 17, 2020
These Genes Don’t Fit Me No More
We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators…we alone on earth, can...