Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball
The long-awaited Oxide and Friends bookclub! Bryan and Adam were joined by special guest--and real life biologist--Greg Cost to discuss Philip Ball's terrific book, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology. Spoiler: Alan Turing makes a very expected appearance!
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Greg Cost.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
The Turing pattern
RNA as a precursor to DNA
Xenopus frog
Xenobots
Anton computer
Bryan's reading notes
Central themes
Power and limitations of metaphor – especially…
The skinny
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