"One of the long-standing questions in origins-of-life research centers on how the proteinaceous side chains and the protein backbone were selected during the earliest phases of evolution. Here we have studied oligomerization reactions of a group of positively charged amino acids, both proteinaceous and nonproteinaceous. Amino acids spontaneously oligomerized without the use of enzymes or … Continue reading Explanation of Why Life on Earth is Made Out of Only 20 Amino Acids When Hundreds are Possible| PNAS
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6 Reasons We Choose Badly in Love – The Book of Life
"The fastest, easiest and most inadvertent technique for messing up one’s life remains that of getting into a serious relationship with the wrong person: with very little effort, and without any innate taste for catastrophe, one can end up – by middle age or earlier – contemplating wholesale financial ruin, loss of parental rights, social … Continue reading 6 Reasons We Choose Badly in Love – The Book of Life
Letter of Recommendation: Washing Dishes – The New York Times
"...a life under constant threat of novelty isn’t a life; it’s exhaustion. Washing dishes by hand, I give myself the chance to remember that this is wrong — that most of life is ordinary; that ordinary isn’t the enemy but instead something nourishing and unavoidable, the bedrock upon which the rest of experience ebbs and … Continue reading Letter of Recommendation: Washing Dishes – The New York Times
Sea Change, Rich & Strange
"Nothing of him that doth fade / but doth suffer a sea-change / Into something rich and strange." —Percy Shelley, The Tempest Sea change, rich and strange. Swim in strange waters. Armed with beauty and circus, wage war on the monotony of life. Designate time for what matters, and be a connoisseur of the free … Continue reading Sea Change, Rich & Strange
The One Year Rule
If you want your life to change, wait a year. It'll change. Of course, it may not be for the better. A study in 2008 found that happiness tends to follow a U-shaped curve, where the lowest level of happiness occurs somewhere around age 46. Yet, there are confounding factors. A death of a spouse, … Continue reading The One Year Rule
Dissection of Life
Cutting concepts, time, our perspective into fragments can help us understand some things. But, even so, the life of the frog cannot be fully explained with the dissection scalpel.
The Temple of LiLoLa
From Catholicism, I learned the value of ritual, religious practice and the power of story to shape our understanding of the world. Years after hearing a homily from one Sunday, I still think of the need to leave a series of empty tombs. The resurrection applies not to some afterlife, it applies to this one, … Continue reading The Temple of LiLoLa
Change Your Perspective: Goals & Time Frames
[Roughly paraphrasing because I don't have the book in front of me] take your ten year life plan and ask, Why can’t I do this in six months? -Peter ThielTim Ferris, "Tools for Titans." New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 The point of the exercise of imagining a time frame twenty times shorter is to see … Continue reading Change Your Perspective: Goals & Time Frames
How to Make Friends as an Adult
"1) Don’t be chill when it comes to making friends. Tell people you like or respect or value that they’re great and you want to hang out with them. If they signal that they’re not interested, that’s fine — but don’t miss the opportunity to get to know someone wonderful just because you don’t want … Continue reading How to Make Friends as an Adult
Viv Albertine on Dating Again in Her 50s
"I had to retrain my eyes and brain to find older men attractive when I started dating again in my fifties. The last time I was single the men I was looking at were in their thirties and I still had that youthful image fixed in my head. It was depressing at first, choosing from … Continue reading Viv Albertine on Dating Again in Her 50s
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