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[rixonology.org] Panspermia: It has become one of the most influential works in the fields of both computer graphics and artificial life It was edited into the “Seeds of Life” segment of the computer graphics compilation Beyond the Mind’s Eye.
[The Panda's Thumb] ID: Intelligent Design as Imitatio Dei (report on the 2007 'Wistar ...: Gunter Wagner characterized parasites as simple organisms living in simple and permissive environments, in which the loss of genetic structure should not be considered degenerative. The problem with this perspective is that parasites are more often more complex than their free-living relatives, and they live in some of the most complex and least permissive environments imaginable (for a good summary, see Brooks and McLennan, Parascript, Smithsonian Press, 1993).
[pseudo intellectual] hetters @ 2008-01-18T02:13:00: non-life, and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally. A physical characteristic of life is that it feeds on negative entropy.[1][2] In more detail, according to physicists such as John Bernal, Erwin Schrödinger, Wigner, and John Avery, life is a member of the class of phenomena which are open or continuous systems able to decrease their internal entropy at the expense of substances or free energy taken in from the environment and subsequently rejected in a degraded form (see: entropy and life).[3][4]
[Science & Light] SYNTHETIC DNA ON THE BRINK OF YIELDING NEW LIFE FORMS: trillion. In a big step toward that goal, Venter has now built the first fully artificial chromosome, a strand of DNA many times longer than anything made by others and laden with all the genetic components a microbe needs to get .
[Louis J. Sheehan] origins: After his economic policies helped reduce German inflation and stabilize the German mark (Helferich Plan), Schacht was appointed president of the Reichsbank at the requests of President Friedrich Ebert and Chancellor Gustav Stresemann. He collaborated with other prominent economists to form the 1929 Young Plan to modify the way that war reparations were paid after Germany's economy was destabilizing under the Dawes Plan.
[Bright Lights] Funny LKY Dialog: A society will remain cohesive only if there is a certain sense of equity and fair play. If I have unbridled capitalism, winner takes all, like in America, and have an underclass, I will find my minorities over-represented and the society will be in jeopardy.
[NDebates] Are Aliens Among Us?: (Scientists are not sure how the amino acids formed in the meteorite, but most researchers believe that the chemicals were not produced by biological activity.) Some of these unfamiliar amino acids might make suitable building blocks for alternative forms of life. To hunt for such aliens, investigators would need to identify an amino acid that is not used by any known organisms nor generated as a by-product of an organism’s metabolism or decay, and to look for its presence in the environment, either among living microbes or in the organic detritus that might be generated by a shadow biosphere.
[MAMi Magazine Blog and Podcast] Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms: In fact, government controls on trade in dangerous microbes do not apply to the bits of DNA that can be used to create them. And while some industry groups have talked about policing the field themselves, the technology is quickly becoming so simple, experts say, that it will not be long before “bio hackers”
[Share Dream] Aliens Among Us - SendMeRSS: Steve Banner of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution uses the field of synthetic or artificial life to study and engineer new organisms by inserting additional amino acids into proteins. Astrobiologists have long speculated on .
[OPAN-AGM] LEX BAGGAGE-GONMASBAG-ATO: (Scientists are not sure how the amino acids formed in the meteorite, but most researchers believe that the chemicals were not produced by biological activity.) Some of these unfamiliar amino acids might make suitable building blocks for alternative forms of life. To hunt for such aliens, investigators would need to identify an amino acid that is not used by any known organisms nor generated as a by-product of an organism’s metabolism or decay, and to look for its presence in the environment, either among living microbes or in the organic detritus that might be generated by a shadow biosphere.
[The Path Less Traveled] Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms: In fact, government controls on trade in dangerous microbes do not apply to the bits of DNA that can be used to create them. And while some industry groups have talked about policing the field themselves, the technology is quickly becoming so simple, experts say, that it will not be long before “bio hackers”
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