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For reasons I have yet to understand, many people don’t like chemicals, which might explain the perennial movement to rid foods of them. <...> Personally, I am quite comfortable with chemicals, anywhere in the universe. My favorite stars, as well as my best friends, are all made of them.
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― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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By the mid-1980s, [Stephen Jay Gould] had emerged as a major public figure, using his background as a paleontologist to dive into controversies with radical stances on the ways new species emerge and how evolutionary change comes about. His [popular history of life] college class was composed of around six hundred students who, taking it as a distributional requirement, were unlikely to become science majors. This audience proved an ideal focal group for Gould to try out his new theories and pre
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― Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
― Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
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