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Science vs intuition

...intuition is a crappy tool for understanding the world. System 1 wasn't built for that purpose. It was built for speed. #Intuition can't understand a terrestrial ball. It doesn't expect a caterpillar to turn into a butterfly. It can't help you understand how ice can fall from the sky an hour after the temperature peaked (in Tucson) at 105 F (40 C). It has never seen continents move.

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#ScienceBlogging
#ScientificCommunication
#blaugust2023

https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/scientific-thinking-as-antidote-to.html

I'm inspired by the #SkyIslands of southern Arizona and northern Sonora. They're literally islands, and a giant laboratory for the study of evolution. The hashtag is in my profile so it's about time I wrote about them! Looking forward to more, and hoping to get directly involved in research somehow. Maybe I can be a volunteer bug collector?

#IslandBiogeography
#blaugust2023
#scienceblogging
#sciencewriting
#tucson
#evolution

https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/sky-islands-one-of-earths-great.html

Following up on yesterday's post about the vast universe of protein sequence space. I mentioned Dan Dennett's brilliant Library of Mendel, itself a subset of the famous Library of Babel.

Today I go more deliberately through the Library of Babel concept, and rename the protein library to The Library of Maynard Smith. (Frances Arnold at Caltech already did that, more than 10 years ago!)

#EvolutionIsEasy
#ProteinEvolution
#blaugust2023
#scienceblogging
#AdaptiveWalk

https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/contemplating-libraries-in-biology-not.html

Following up on yesterday's post about the vast universe of protein sequence space. I mentioned Dan Dennett's brilliant Library of Mendel, itself a subset of the famous Library of Babel.

Today I go more deliberately through the Library of Babel concept, and rename the protein library to The Library of Maynard Smith. (Frances Arnold at Caltech already did that, more than 10 years ago!)

#EvolutionIsEasy
#ProteinEvolution
#blaugust2023
#scienceblogging
#AdaptiveWalk

https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/contemplating-libraries-in-biology-not.html

Following up on yesterday's post about the vast universe of protein sequence space. I mentioned Dan Dennett's brilliant Library of Mendel, itself a subset of the famous Library of Babel.

Today I go more deliberately through the Library of Babel concept, and rename the protein library to The Library of Maynard Smith. (Frances Arnold at Caltech already did that, more than 10 years ago!)

#EvolutionIsEasy
#ProteinEvolution
#blaugust2023
#scienceblogging
#AdaptiveWalk

https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/contemplating-libraries-in-biology-not.html

Following up on yesterday's post about the vast universe of protein sequence space. I mentioned Dan Dennett's brilliant Library of Mendel, itself a subset of the famous Library of Babel.

Today I go more deliberately through the Library of Babel concept, and rename the protein library to The Library of Maynard Smith. (Frances Arnold at Caltech already did that, more than 10 years ago!)

#EvolutionIsEasy
#ProteinEvolution
#blaugust2023
#scienceblogging
#AdaptiveWalk

https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/contemplating-libraries-in-biology-not.html

Following up on yesterday's post about the vast universe of protein sequence space. I mentioned Dan Dennett's brilliant Library of Mendel, itself a subset of the famous Library of Babel.

Today I go more deliberately through the Library of Babel concept, and rename the protein library to The Library of Maynard Smith. (Frances Arnold at Caltech already did that, more than 10 years ago!)

#EvolutionIsEasy
#ProteinEvolution
#blaugust2023
#scienceblogging
#AdaptiveWalk

https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/contemplating-libraries-in-biology-not.html

@imtheq still in its early days (as blog & portfolio) but with a real effort to keep updating

https://www.myscivoice.com/

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