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#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness

#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness

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Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. - Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast: - Public Goods: https://publicgoods.com/lex and use code LEX

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Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT
Computational Biology Group.

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

06:20 – Epigenome

10:28 – Evolution

15:26 – Neanderthals

27:15 – Origin of life on Earth

43:44 – Life is a fight against physics

49:56 – Life as a set of transformations

51:35 – Time scales

1:00:31 – Transformations of ideas in human civilization

1:05:19 – Life is more than a rat race

1:13:18 – Life sucks sometimes and that’s okay

1:30:16 – Getting older

1:36:21 – The best of MIT

1:49:01 – Poem 1: The Snow

2:01:52 – Love

2:06:16 – Poem 2: The Tide Waters