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Plethora of Recent Papers Finds Function for Non-Coding DNA
One of the greatest movies ever made (in my humble opinion) was Three Amigos, which introduced pop-culture to the word “plethora.”
Souped-Up Hyperdrive Flagellum Discovered
Get a load of this — a bacterium that packs a gear-driven, seven-engine, magnetic-guided flagellar bundle that gets 0 to 300 micrometers in one second, ten times faster than E. coli.
Let’s Not Be So Quick to Dismiss Paul Johnson’s Darwin
His take on Darwin’s unwitting contribution to 20th-century genocide and mass murder (though certainly unintended) is more right than wrong.
"Epistemic Closure" at the Wall Street Journal
The phrase refers to a willed ignorance and refusal to come to terms with complex realities.
DNA a Stupid Design? Can Benner Do Better?
What if these researchers do succeed some day in improving on life’s code? Would it support the case for materialism?