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Monday dot com work o s is a customisable platform that gives teams the ability to easily create the work soft ware they need and want. With monday dot com, managers have full visibility into what their team is working on, no check in necessary. Jeremy england is one of the world's leaders in thinking about this intersection of statistical mechanics and entropy with life - both its origin and its evolution. In his new book, how thermodynamics explains the origins of living things, jeremy does not shy away from talking about the relationship, in his mind, between his jewish faith and the word that he reads in the hebrew bible.

Erwin Schrödinger’s famous book What Is Life? highlighted the connections between physics, and thermodynamics in particular, and the nature of living beings. But the exact connections between living organisms and the flow of heat and entropy remains a topic of ongoing research. Jeremy England is a leader in this field, deriving connections between thermodynamic relations and the processes of life. He is also an ordained rabbi who finds resonances between modern science and passages in the Hebrew Bible. We talk about it all, from entropy fluctuation theorems to how scientists should approach religion.

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Jeremy England received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. He is currently Senior Director in the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning group at GlaxoSmithKline. He has been a Rhodes scholar, a Hertz fellow, and was named one of Forbes‘s “30 Under 30 Rising Stars of Science.” His new book is Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things.

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