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LIFE SCIENCE

awaiting its first sphere.
42 cultures on the rack · one grows at a time · sealed & live
⚲ THE CULTURE LAB · colonies on the agar, one culturing
CULTURE · —
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⚲ the cultures

every dish, named & enterable
MTO · MITOCHONDRIALife Science · emergence by merger · 14 emergentsCELLULAR AUTOMATA · CAlife-science · life from rules · interactive · 13ORGANOID INTELLIGENCE · OIlife-science · life as the laptop · the bridge to hardware ·NEUROMORPHIC · NRMlife-science · brain-behavior in silicon · interactive · 10XENOBOTS · XENlife-science · living robots · interactive · 10THERMODYNAMICS OF COMPUTATION · TOClife-science · the floor under every laptop · interactive · SLIME MOLD · SLMlife-science · the brainless problem-solver · interactive · THE IMMUNE SYSTEM · IMMlife-science · the mind made of cells · interactive · 12QUORUM SENSING · QRMlife-science · the bacterial vote · interactive · 10THE GUT-BRAIN AXIS · GBAlife-science · the second brain & its microbes · interacTHE ANT COLONY · ANTlife-science · the colony as one mind · interactive · 11TRICHOPLAX · TRXlife-science · the animal with no neurons · interactive · 10DICTYOSTELIUM · DCTlife-science · the social amoeba · interactive · vellum · 11THE LEARNING CELL · SCLlife-science · habit & memory in one cell · interactive THE HONEYBEE SWARM · BEElife-science · the swarm decides · interactive · vellum · 11PLANT INTELLIGENCE · PLTlife-science · the root-brain & the green mind · interacTHE SPONGE · SPNlife-science · the animal that is all body · interactive · 1VIRUSES · VIRlife-science · the edge of life · interactive · 11PRIONS · PRNlife-science · heredity without a gene · interactive · velluLICHEN · LIClife-science · two lives as one · interactive · vellum · 11MICHAELIS–MENTENlife-science · an enzyme with fixed hands speeds up then satTHE GROWTH CURVElife-science · exponential then an S that flattens at carryiTHE LOTKA-VOLTERRAlife-science · predator & prey oscillate forever, predatTHE HILL EQUATIONlife-science · cooperative binding — hemoglobin's S-curTHE SIR MODELlife-science · epidemics turn on one number: R₀>1 spreadsTHE ALLOMETRYlife-science · Kleiber's law — metabolic rate ∝ mass^(3THE NERNST EQUATIONlife-science · the cell is a battery — an ion gradient sets THE TURING PATTERNlife-science · a fast inhibitor + slow activator breaks symmTHE WRIGHT-FISHERlife-science · genetic drift — chance alone fixes or loses aHARDY–WEINBERGlife-science · genotypes settle into p², 2pq, q² when nothinTHE MAN O' WAR · MOWlife-science · a colony that is one animal · interactive · vARTIFICIAL LIFE · ALIlife-science · life-like in software · interactive · vellum TARDIGRADES · TARlife-science · life paused · interactive · vellum · 12CHOANOFLAGELLATES · CHOlife-science · the doorway to all animals · interactive · veTHE RNA WORLD · RNAlife-science · life's first chemistry · interactive · vTHE LIVING QUESTION · TLQlife-science · the conclusion · top hits + the maybe · interCORAL · CRLlife-science · the partnership that builds a world · interacLUCA · LCAlife-science · the last universal common ancestor · interactMYC · MYCELIUMLife Science · the network beneath · 9 emergentsOCT · THE OCTOPUSLife Science · the second genesis of mind · 14 emergentsPOP · POPULATION DYNAMICSLife Science · the real psychohistory · 16 emergentsTHE EDGE OF CHAOScellular automata - watch, tune, why