From the Daily Mail UK’s Aspiring chef dies hours after making ultra-hot sauce for chilli-eating contest: “An aspiring cook who challenged his friend to a chilli-eating contest died just hours later. Andrew Lee, 33, had used a bag of home-grown red chillies to make a super-hot sauce. The forklift truck driver, who had recently passed [...]
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Ladies & Gentlemen: Meet Your Overarching Metaphor
May 5, 2008 – 11:07 am
From Carl Zimmer’s The More We Know About Genes, the Less We Understand: “The source of their strength lies not in a single molecule — DNA — but in a complicated web of relationships. The network itself is the mystery for biologists in the 21st century.”
Complexity Theory Takes Evolution to Another Level
February 13, 2008 – 12:24 pm
From Wired’s Complexity Theory Takes Evolution to Another Level: “A growing number of scientists do say that neo-Darwinian evolution doesn’t explain certain jumps in biological complexity: from single-celled to multicellular organisms, from single organisms to entire communities. The jumps…appear to be non-linear emergent phenomena, the result of networked interactions that produce self-organization at ever higher [...]
