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\|	\|	aeon.co The selfish gene is a great meme. Too bad it's so wrong \| Aeon Essays	4.6 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	For decades, the selfish gene metaphor let us view evolution with new clarity. Is it now blinding us?	4.6 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	4gravitons.com Book Review: The Case Against Reality \| 4 gravitons	4.0 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	Nima Arkani-Hamed shows up surprisingly rarely in popular science books. A major figure in my former field, Nima is extremely quotable (frequent examples include "spacetime is doomed" and "the universe is not a crappy metal"), but those quotes don't seem to quite have reached the popular physics mainstream. He's been interviewed in books by physicists,...	4.0 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	www.wiringthebrain.com What are the Laws of Biology?	3.3 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	The reductionist perspective on biology is that it all boils down to physics eventually. That anything that is happenin...	3.3 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	4gravitons.com Why Quantum Gravity Is Controversial \| 4 gravitons	32.6 parsecs away Travel
\|		Merging quantum mechanics and gravity is a famously hard physics problem. Explaining why merging quantum mechanics and gravity is hard is, in turn, a very hard science communication problem. The more popular descriptions tend to lead to misunderstandings, and I've posted many times over the years to chip away at those misunderstandings. Merging quantum mechanics...	32.6 parsecs away Travel