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The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)

by James Islington (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is?

The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is? by Nick Lane

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When a cell undergoes apoptosis, it kills itself via a carefully choreographed ballet, the cellular equivalent of the dying swan.

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“although numbers may seem to be pure facts that exist independently from any human judgment, they are heavily laden with context and shaped by decisions—from how they are calculated to the units in which they are expressed.”
― Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

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“Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules.”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

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“In fact, he argued, any coastline is—in a sense—infinitely long. In another sense, the answer depends on the length of your ruler.”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

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“To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

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