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This idea of emergence is the thread connecting my life's work.

In «Rethinking Evolution,» I wrote about Emergent Evolutionary Potential (#EEP)—how new levels of biological organization (like the first cell, or the first multicellular organism) created entirely new potentials for evolution itself.

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🧪 Evolution in action-
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

After 2,000 Years, Scientists Finally Solve the Riddle of the Chameleon’s Wandering Eye After centuries of fascination and speculation, scientists have finally uncovered the secret behind chameleons’ mesmerizing, independently moving eyes. Chameleons’ roaming eyes have captivated and mys...

🧪 A new twist in the #evolution of
chameleons uncovers an extremely
specialized optic nerve morphology
Emily Collins1, Aaron M. Bauer2, Raul E. Diaz Jr.3,4, Alexandra Herrera-Martínez5
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Esteban Lavilla6, Edward L. Stanley7, Monte L. Thies1 & Juan D. Daza1

scitechdaily.com/after-2000-y...

New Chinese optical quantum chip allegedly 1,000x faster than Nvidia GPUs for processing AI workloads - firm reportedly producing 12,000 wafers per year Nvidia is also investing in similar optical quantum technology.

🧪 New Chinese optical quantum chip allegedly 1,000x faster than Nvidia GPUs for processing AI workloads - firm reportedly producing 12,000 wafers per year
Aaron Klotz
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

🧪 Stand Up for Science
Rally March 7, 2026

Always bang on the hood a few times.

Anthropic Played 5D Chess…

Anthropic Played 5D Chess Against the Pentagon and OpenAI Everyone is calling Anthropic’s refusal to comply with the Pentagon a brave, principled sacrifice.

intuitmachine.medium.com/anthropic-pl...

Ancient artifacts hint at earliest protowriting Geometric shapes on 40,000-year-old bone and ivory suggest early European Homo sapiens long possessed cognitive tools for language

🧪Ancient artifacts hint at earliest protowriting | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

🚨 HISTORIC BREAKTHROUGH:

Japan Becomes First Nation to Approve Revolutionary iPS Stem Cell Therapies for Heart Failure and Parkinson’s

Scientists at Stanford Medicine have made a Groundbreaking Discovery progress toward a potential universal vaccine targeting the common cold, flu, COVID-19, and even certain allergies, based on promising results in mice.

BREAKING: Scientists Announce Groundbreaking Discovery Universal Vaccine Could Protect Against Coughs, Colds, Flu, COVID & Allergies

Get in, dorks. We're ready for round two.

RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC

Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (link in our bio.)

The tiny technology that rules the world Watch now | The global economy hinges on this fingernail-sized silicon chip.

The tiny tech that extends human collective cognitive abilities 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/bigthink...

Perhaps air fishing, hook above ground and dangling in mid air?

This glass wafer could back up your phone—and last 10,000 years Laser-written patterns on glass could store data for millennia at a time

This glass wafer could back up your phone—and last 10,000 years | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Headline on a photo of the Brazilian athlete holding a gold medal: Lucas Pinheiro Braathen Wins South America’s First Ever Winter Olympics Medal

From @theathletic.com: Lucas Pinheiro Braathen made history for Brazil and for South America — he became the first athlete from the continent to win a medal at the Winter Olympics. nyti.ms/4tUe2FN

Breaking: Talarico Raises Millions in Response to CBS' Censorship Trump Threatens to "Shut Down" Elections, Republicans' Midterm Chances Hit Rock Bottom, CBS Star Takes Jab at Bari Weiss

Public Outrage at CBS Corporate Censorship Boosts Talarico into Stratosphere ! open.substack.com/pub/rawstory...

Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader Who Sought the Presidency, Dies at 84

“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. They are restless and seek relief.”
— Jessie Jackson www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Robert Duvall, Rest in Peace.

Epigenetic inheritance of acquired traits via stem cells dedifferentiation/differentiation or transdifferentiation cycles - the Node Do cells carry memories of the whole body into the next generation? For more than two millennia, biologists and philosophers have debated whether traits

🧪 Epigenetic inheritance of acquired traits via stem cells dedifferentiation/differentiation or transdifferentiation cycles by Arshak Alexanian
thenode.biologists.com/epigenetic-i...

Hi readers, happy Monday! My beloved Seattle Seahawks won Super Bowl LX last night, and Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny put on a stunning halftime show. My colleague Izzie Ramirez wrote about the eight most striking moments from his unapologetically American performance:

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5 of many Deeper Meanings in Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show

Phenomenal #SuperBowl halftime show from Bad Bunny.

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