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36 | Laurence Hurst and the slime mold model of discovery

Night Science

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The Unrepresentative Mind of Darwin

Darwin's answer has always intrigued me so the answer Darwin gives this problem is if you don't have an idea in mind you may as well go to a quarry and count the pebbles and scale their color or something like that right. Every piece of data should be either for or against a particular yeah, he says. "We need all sorts of people oh no absolutely i'm simply telling you about how my brain works right" The human genome project generates the data for you to look atPerhaps in science we need the data generators and we need theData synthesizers but not a set of questions  i'm bothered about they're clearly our people who do not get off on the

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