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How to Manage Technical Debt 🦠 – by Luca Rossi
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. “}}
Syncytin-1 – Wikipedia
December 26, 2025https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncytin-1
QT:{{” Syncytin-1 also known as enverin is a protein found in humans and other primates that is encoded by the ERVW-1 gene (endogenous retrovirus group W envelope member 1). Syncytin-1 is a cell-cell fusion protein whose function is best characterized in placental development.[3][4] The placenta in turn aids in embryo attachment to the uterus and establishment of a nutrient supply. “}}
Epistasis
December 26, 2025https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Epistasis#:~:text=Epistasis%20is%20a%20circumstance%20where,one%20or%20more%20other%20genes. QT:{{”
Epistasis is a circumstance where the expression of one gene is modified (e.g., masked, inhibited or suppressed) by the expression of one or more other genes. “}}
Edge.org
December 26, 2025https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27082
QT:{{” Toss a mouse from a building. It will land, shake itself off and scamper away. But if similarly dropped, “… a rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.” So wrote J.B.S. Haldane in his 1926 essay “On Being the Right Size.” Size matters, but not in the way a city-stomping Godzilla or King Kong might hope.
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Ada Lovelace – Wikipedia
December 26, 2025https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
QT:{{” From 1832, when she was seventeen, her mathematical abilities began to emerge,[23] and her interest in mathematics dominated the majority of her adult life.[39] Her mother’s obsession with rooting out any of the insanity of which she accused Byron was one of the reasons that Ada was taught mathematics from an early age. She was privately educated in mathematics and science by William Frend, William King,[a] and Mary Somerville, the noted 19th-century researcher and scientific author. In the 1840s, the mathematician Augustus De Morgan extended her “much help in her mathematical studies” including study of advanced calculus topics including the “numbers of Bernoulli” (that formed her celebrated algorithm for Babbage’s Analytical Engine).[40] In a letter to Lady Byron, De Morgan suggested that Ada’s skill in mathematics might lead her to become “an original mathematical investigator, perhaps of first-rate
eminence”.[41] “}}
Protein moonlighting – Wikipedia
December 26, 2025https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_moonlighting
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Histone H3 – DNA packaging – Copper reductase
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