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#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness
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Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group.
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OUTLINE:
– Introduction
– Epigenome
– Evolution
– Neanderthals
– Origin of life on Earth
– Life is a fight against physics
– Life as a set of transformations
– Time scales
– Transformations of ideas in human civilization
– Life is more than a rat race
– Life sucks sometimes and that’s okay
– Getting older
– The best of MIT
– Poem 1: The Snow
– Love
– Poem 2: The Tide Waters
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