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Sept. 23, 2024 |
A feeling for the organism. What sets the scale of X? Order of magnitude thinking as a tool for understanding the world. Examples from the energy scale to form a spindle to the amount of poop created per year by whales. |
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Sept. 24, 2024 |
Stuff of t and biology’s unique laws of dynamics. Dynamical phenomena in both the nonliving and the living. The great principles of dynamics and their biological consequences. Biology’s unique answer to purposeful dynamics. Making our guesses precise: null hypotheses. When guesses become probability distributions. The great distributions: binomial, Poisson, exponential, and their important biological consequences. |
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Sept. 25, 2024 |
What is Frank talking about? The physics-biology interface in Dresden and insights into a host of interesting problems. |
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Sept. 26, 2024 |
What is life? Various musings on the secret of life. Defiance as the secret of life. Biological batteries and paying for the processes of life. Setting up membrane gradients. Biological fidelity. |
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Sept. 27, 2024 |
Representing and approximating Life. Rethinking the idea of a vector: from Descartes (x,y) to ChatGPT. Weird vectors, from personality type, to cell shape, to fluorescence recovery after photobleaching experiments. |
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