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BEDAU on video talking about emergence. https://lnkd.in/dPUpdiW 1 View in LinkedIn

MARK BEDAU set a number of challenges to the emerging artificial life community. These included: "Generate a molecular proto-organism in vitro. Achieve the transition to life in an artificial chemistry in silico. Determine whether fundamentally novel living organizations can exist?" https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

ANAPHYLAXIS INNOVATION. StellaPharma to Develop Epinephrine Nasal Spray Product. https://lnkd.in/duy7NeV View in LinkedIn

PARALLEL to artificial life investigations, in silico artificial chemistry has opened up a new world of possibilities of looking at molecular evolution and the origin of life. Provocative and interesting. View in LinkedIn

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS. "We believe it's now possible to program nearly every material to change shape and properties," says Skylar Tibbits, director of MIT’s Self-Assembly Laboratory. "Code", he says, will become the "language of materials" in the same way it is the language of machines today." https://lnkd.in/d6YRRJH View in LinkedIn

MASSIVE LOSS. “In either a constructive or a destructive endmember scenario, if global sediment supply from tectonic uplift is held constant near Phanerozoic levels, then the depressed Proterozoic sediment volume in Fig. 1A suggests that on the order of 109km3 of sediment are absent from the continental crust and deposited instead in the deep ocean basins—either gradually, throughout the Proterozoic due to a diminished sediment storage capacity of the continents in a constructive model, or rapidly during an interval of enhanced erosion near the Proterozoic–Phanerozoic boundary in a destructive model.” https://lnkd.in/d6fatHN View in LinkedIn

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED. "In contrast with popular theories of evolution, in which evolution is defined with respect to given symbolic genes and rules such as for replication or recombination, a proper theory of evolving life must allow evolution to create new symbolic descriptions and rules to manipulate them." https://lnkd.in/dsMZPii View in LinkedIn

‪“These excursions, the Great Unconformity, preservational irregularities in the terrestrial bolide impact record, and the first-order pattern of Phanerozoic sedimentation can together be explained by spatially heterogeneous Neoproterozoic glacial erosion totaling a global average of 3–5 vertical kilometers, along with the subsequent thermal and isostatic consequences of this erosion for global continental freeboard.”‬" "‪https://lnkd.in/d5waTiU View in LinkedIn

SUPPORTING DATA. “Here we show that the Great Unconformity is associated with a set of large global oxygen and hafnium isotope excursions in magmatic zircon that suggest a late Neoproterozoic crustal erosion and sediment subduction event of unprecedented scale. These excursions, the Great Unconformity, preservational irregularities in the terrestrial bolide impact record, and the first-order pattern of Phanerozoic sedimentation can together be explained by spatially heterogeneous Neoproterozoic glacial erosion totaling a global average of 3–5 vertical kilometers, along with the subsequent thermal and isostatic consequences of this erosion for global continental freeboard.” https://lnkd.in/d6fatHN View in LinkedIn

ELUSIVE EXPLANATIONS. “The Great Unconformity, a profound gap in Earth’s stratigraphic record often evident below the base of the Cambrian system, has remained among the most enigmatic field observations in Earth science for over a century. While long associated directly or indirectly with the occurrence of the earliest complex animal fossils, a conclusive explanation for the formation and global extent of the Great Unconformity has remained elusive.” https://lnkd.in/d6fatHN View in LinkedIn