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Jon Kabat-Zinn - The Heart of Mindfulness

Mind & Life

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The Evolution of Bacterial Bacteria

I was obsessed with inside and outside the cell membrane what why was inside alive in the cell but outside not alive. The bacteriophage would land on the receptors on the cell surface and then inject its DNA inside and then the DNA takes over the entire machinery as we used to say of the cell and diverts it for its own purposes that's still going on you knowWith RNA viruses and COVID and everything else is like holy moly this is phenomenal stuff I mean from an evolutionary point of view how do you get the first cellHow do you get inside and outside  of being human? You're just like a pig in a poke doing this kind of stuff, he says.

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