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Infectious Awareness

2016-01-19 · 2,485 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Infectious Awareness — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from whi
Infectious Awareness — pen and ink drawing

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"At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it would have been taken. The whole being to which this fragment belonged appears in my mind's eye." — Baron Georges Cuvier, 1837

"It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it is pumping downy seeds into the air....[spreading] DNA whose coded characters spell out specific instructions for building willow trees that will shed a new generation of downy seeds.…It is raining instructions out there; it's raining programs; it's raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms. That is not a metaphor, it…

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