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5 | Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Biology Is the Science of the 20th Century

i used to hear both at los alamos, which, after all, is a national lab with huge numbers of activities. But i also heard it in the halls of the department of energy, which were the funding agency for the festival. And so i reacted emotionally to the idea that a festival on biology was going to be a major science in the 20 first century. No one could doubt that. Was clear. To be fared, the s s would have been very expensive, of course, and had all that money gone to the rest of physics, they would have been rich. but word perhap, this never would have nor was a humungous amount of money on the scale

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