The Radio In 2002, the cancer biologist Yuri Lazebnik asked a deceptively simple question: can a biologist fix a radio? His answer was no — not because biologists lack intelligence or effort, but because their methodology is the problem. A biologist trained in reductionist technique would collect identical radios, remove components one at a time, … Continue reading The Topology of Self-Limitation: When Strength and Ceiling Share the Same Root
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Dune Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict
"Written even before the advent of America’s war in Vietnam, Dune captures a world in which war is inherently asymmetric, where head-on, conventional military conflict has largely been replaced with all the subtler ways that humans seek to dominate one another: insurgency and counterinsurgency, sabotage and assassination, diplomacy, espionage and treachery, proxy wars and resource … Continue reading Dune Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict
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