If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For? | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/29/if-ai-can-diagnose-patients-what-are-doctors-for
If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?
December 27, 2025Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
December 27, 2025Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It |
The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/tim-berners-lee-invented-the-world-wide-web-now-he-wants-to-save-it
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December 27, 2025How to Manage Technical Debt 🦠 – by Luca Rossi
December 26, 2025Heritability 101: What is “heritability”? — Neale lab
December 26, 2025Spandrel (biology) – Wikipedia
December 26, 2025https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)
QT:{{” In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic trait that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection. Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin brought the term into biology in their 1979 paper “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme”.[1] Adaptationism is a point of view that sees most organismal traits as adaptive products of natural selection. Gould and Lewontin sought to temper what they saw as adaptationist bias by promoting a more structuralist view of evolution.
The term “spandrel” originates from architecture, where it refers to the roughly triangular spaces between the top of an arch and the ceiling.[2] “}}
A Big Bridge In The Wrong Place : Planet Money : NPR
December 26, 2025https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/08/19/139749870/a-big-bridge-in-the-wrong-place#:~:text=No%20one%20seemed%20to%20know,three%2Dmile%2Dlong%20bridge. QT:{{” You would never look at a map of the Hudson River, point to the spot where the Tappan Zee Bridge is, and say, “Put the bridge here!”… The Port Authority — the body that proposed putting the bridge further south — had a monopoly over all bridges built in a 25-mile radius around the Statue of Liberty.
If the bridge had been built just a bit south of its current location — that is, if it had been built across a narrower stretch of the river — it would have been in the territory that belonged to the Port Authority. “}}
E. coli long-term evolution experiment – Wikipedia
December 26, 2025https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment QT:{{” It has been tracking genetic changes in 12 initially identical populations of asexual Escherichia coli bacteria since 24 February 1988.[4] Lenski performed the 10,000th transfer of the experiment on March 13, 2017.[5] The populations reached over 73,000 generations in early 2020, shortly before being frozen because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[6] “}}
Exaptation – Wikipedia
December 26, 2025https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaptation
QT:{{” Exaptation or co-option is a shift in the function of a trait during evolution. For example, a trait can evolve because it served one particular function, but subsequently it may come to serve another. Exaptations are common in both anatomy and behaviour. Bird feathers are a classic example. Initially they may have evolved for temperature regulation, but later were adapted for flight. When feathers were first used to aid in flight, that was an exaptive use. “}}
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