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    Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball

    Oxide and Friends · May 22, 2024 · 1 h 51 min
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    The long-awaited Oxide and Friends bookclub! Bryan and Adam were joined by special guest--and real life biologist--Greg Cost to discuss Philip Ball's terrific book, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology . Spoiler: Alan Turing makes a very expected appearance! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , we were joined by special guest Greg Cost. Some of the topics we hit on, in…

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