Can we domesticate Germs? [2007]https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_ewald_asks_can_we_domesticate_germs …
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"And it is a perfect example of one of natures most fundamental rules: if there is a hole something will crawl up there and poop in it…" —
@zefrankhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzk1bM2vVFU …
"The immune system was not evolved to protect us? This seems counter-intuitive. We see that the immune system is absolutely essential to survival in a world of infectious agents, and we conclude that it was selected to prevent disease." https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=related:iqLdbctsPLoJ:scholar.google.com/&hl=en&as_sdt=0,46 …pic.twitter.com/IsoF0zqubD
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an external active immune system for protecting one's poop.https://twitter.com/jaredclarke5/status/1020025634419085312 …
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One of the great things about exploring a field from an outsider perspective is a lack of cultural taint. A lot of my biological models of how things work stem from intuitions out of game theory, unbiased by the cultural momentum within a field itself.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/938688443475021824 …
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"A zebra doesn't have to outrun the lion, just the slowest member of the herd" "I conclude that a clear evolutionary approach to the problem of host-pathogen interactions might encourage the field to reconsider some of its most closely held tenets."https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/938373626520272898 …
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The red king effect and the red queen effect are about the complex balance of parasitism among groups of collaborating/competing animals.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/885295296745529345 …
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Balance is achieved by constantly adjusting your stance. https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aultimape%20meta%20stable&src=typd …
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Parasitic Fractals. "This is a true web of interactions since vertebrates often harbor multiple parasites, the invertebrate parasites have parasites, and the parasites' parasites have parasites."https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/942066359353176064 …
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In the end we are all just parasitisms of the sun. Stealing entropy from the noise floor of creation.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/914077922025230336 …
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We all live in a neutered shitty meme. So we sailed up to the sun Till we found the sea of grue And we lived beneath the waves In our neutered, shitty meme. https://www.thewrap.com/how-yellow-submarine-made-the-beatles-lovable-again/ …https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/1027136351110668288 …
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A plant that wears it's stomach on the outside, secreting digestive juices to feed an active adaptive immune system.https://invidio.us/watch?v=KiAEzfF2y0M …
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