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Complexity Without Adaptation: Are most changes downstream of DNA adaptive?
Most DNA, and the variation we observe in it, is non-adaptive. The majority of mutations don’t cause any change to the organism’s functioning. Only very…
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ACHOO Syndrome: One of the less severe genetic disorders
Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helioopthalmic Outburst (ACHOO) Syndrome is characterized by uncontrollable sneezing in response to the sudden exposure to bright light, typically intense sunlight. That’s…
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Short Books: Respecting the reader by keeping it concise
Occasionally, while reading an author I’m not familiar with, I get the feeling that they aren’t writing for me. Their intended reader seems to be a Netflix…
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Palmer’s: What do a San Francisco bar and an Austrian lingerie brand have in common?
There is a bar on Fillmore in San Francisco that has the same name and logo as a popular Austrian lingerie brand with dozens of…
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Not a Solution to the Fermi Paradox: Aliens travelling too fast isn’t a likely explanation why we haven’t observed them
The most likely solution to the Fermi paradox is that being intelligent isn’t a particularly successful evolutionary strategy. Our level of smarts took a long…
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The Pareto Frontier: How good can you get?
The Pareto frontier is about tradeoffs. Systems can typically be optimized along one dimension only if there are tradeoffs along others. You can build as…
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