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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE is a contemplation about a mainstream and pervasive view of nature, namely that it is "nasty, short and brutish" (to borrow from Thomas Hobbes) or that it is a battle for survival, and survival of the fittest (to borrow from Darwin). Our modern cinematographic portrayal of most natural scenes is one of constant bloodshed, conflict, and imminent dangers. View in LinkedIn

Why Morocco is leading the charge against climate change http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/17/africa/morocco-green-energy/index.html View in LinkedIn

DIRECTIONALITY CHANGE. "This transition should be characterized by a reversal in the causal flow of information from bottom-up only to a situation characterized by bi-directional causality." http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/79/20120869.short View in LinkedIn

THE SOURCE. "Without photosynthesizing organisms the Biosphere could not exist." http://www.digital-recordings.com/publ/publife.html View in LinkedIn

TRANSITION. "The emergence of life was probably marked by a transition in information processing capabilities." http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/79/20120869.short View in LinkedIn

CATEGORY #2. LIFE AS FOOD. "All other organisms must make use of food that comes from other organisms in the form of fats, carbohydrates and proteins. These organisms which feed on others are called heterotrophs." They include herbivores, carnivores, fungi, and many microorganisms. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/biology/autotroph.html View in LinkedIn

GOING DIGITAL. "Life forms that ‘go digital’ may be the only systems that survive in the long-run and are thus the only remaining product of the processes that led to life." http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/79/20120869.short View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOMES. "Information stored electronically can be used to direct artificial synthesis of the corresponding DNA. Complex DNA syntheses are rapidly becoming faster, more accurate, and more efficient, such that whole chromosomes can be synthesized and manipulated." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

DNA CONVERSION TO BINARY CODE. "DNA sequences are now recorded as binary code, which is replicated via file sharing, and used as a template to synthesize new DNA molecules." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

RECONSTRUCTING DNA. "Technological advances in molecular biology have now developed to the point where it is possible to store large amounts of DNA sequence in databases and resynthesize this DNA at distant locations or later dates." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn