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"On protein synthesis" notes and thoughts

Francis H. C. Crick

The Biological Replication of Macromolecules, Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, 12 (1958), 138-63. Reprinted paper, unmarked.

26 pages / 15 page PDF

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/z3d5fnyg


Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid

James D. Watson & Francis H. C. Crick

Nature 171, 737–738 (April 25, 1953)

2 pages

https://www.nature.com/articles/171737a0


The Eradication of the Screw-Worm Fly

Edward Fred Knipling

Scientific American, Vol. 203, No. 4 (October 1960), pp. 54-61 (8 pages); doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican1060-54

https://jstor.org/stable/24940657

https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican1060-54

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-eradication-of-the-screw-worm-f/


Life at low Reynolds number

Edward Mills Purcell

American Journal of Physics Vol. 45, No. 1, 3–11 (January 1977); doi: 10.1119/1.10903

9 pages

https://doi.org/10.1119/1.10903

https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article-abstract/45/1/3/1043148/Life-at-low-Reynolds-number


Fuck Nuance

Kieran Joseph Healy

Sociological Theory, 35(2), 118-127 (first published online June 26, 2017); doi: 10.1177/0735275117709046

10 pages

https://doi.org/10.1177/0735275117709046

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0735275117709046

https://kieranhealy.org/publications/fuck-nuance


CRISPRi-based circuits to control gene expression in plants

Muhammad Adil Khan, Gabrielle Herring, Jia Yuan Zhu, Marina Oliva, Elliott Fourie, Benjamin Johnston, Zhining Zhang, Jarred Potter, Luke Pineda, Jahnvi Pflueger, Tessa Swain, Christian Pflueger, James P. B. Lloyd, David Secco, Ian Small, Brendan N. Kidd, Ryan Lister

Nature Biotechnology (published May 20, 2024); doi: 10.1038/s41587-024-02236-w

20 page PDF

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02236-w

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02236-w

bioRxiv preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.01.498372v1; https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.01.498372; doi: 10.1101/2022.07.01.498372


The Completeness of Molecular Biology

Harold Joseph Morowitz

Israel Journal of Medical Sciences, Vol. 20, Issue 9 (September 1984), pp. 750–753; ISSN: 0021-2180

4 pages

https://static.ias.edu/pitp/2019/sites/pitp/files/morowitz-completeness_of_mol._bio._copy.pdf


Helix: An Electrochemical CMOS DNA Synthesizer

Omid Ghadami, Hongyu Lu, Matthew Chan, Mila Tan, Saeromi Chung, Sang Heon Lee, Matthew T. Holden, Ryan de Ridder, Barry Merriman, Drew A. Hall

2022 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2022, pp. 66-67; doi: 10.1109/VLSITechnologyandCir46769.2022.9830446

2 pages

https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSITechnologyandCir46769.2022.9830446

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9830446


Synthetic Biology - A Primer (Revised Edition)

Paul Simon Freemont, Richard Ian Kitney, Geoff Baldwin, Travis Bayer, Robert Dickinson, Tom Ellis, Karen Polizzi, Guy-Bart Stan

Singapore: Imperial College Press/World Scientific Publishing, 2016. Revised edition; ISBN: 9781783268788 (hardcover, alkaline paper), 9781783268795 (paperback, alkaline paper), 9781783268801 (fixed eText), 9781783268818 (reflowable eText)

179 pages

https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=e025xna&AN=1061746


Catastrophic Thinking: Did Ben-Gurion Try to Rewrite History? (alternative title: ‘Of Their Own Free Will’)

Shay Hazkani

Haaretz (May 16, 2013)

https://www.haaretz.com/2013-05-16/ty-article/.premium/ben-gurion-grasped-the-nakbas-importance/0000017f-e12d-d38f-a57f-e77fcfdd0000

Archived pages: [web.archive.org] [archive.today]

https://www.academia.edu/15314644/_Catastrophic_Thinking_Did_Ben_Gurion_Try_to_Rewrite_History_Haaretz_16_May_2013

https://issuu.com/shay_hazkani/docs/of_their_own_free_will


Ten Myths About Israel

Ilan Pappé

Verso Books, April 2017. ISBN: 9781786630193 (paperback), 9781786630216 (US ebook), 9781786630209 (UK ebook)

192 pages

https://www.versobooks.com/products/370-ten-myths-about-israel


Why Technology Favors Tyranny

Yuval Noah Harari

The Atlantic (October 2018)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/

Cached and archived pages: [webcache.googleusercontent.com] [web.archive.org] [archive.today]


Why the Negro Won't Buy Communism

Zora Neale Hurston

The American Legion Magazine, Volume 50, No. 6 (June 1951), pp. 14-15+55-60 (8 pages); doi: 10.5070/T851019735

https://doi.org/10.5070/T851019735

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/47f1c8tc; https://escholarship.org/content/qt47f1c8tc/qt47f1c8tc.pdf

https://archive.legion.org/node/2059; https://archive.legion.org/_flysystem/fedora/2022-05/americanlegionma506amer.pdf

https://archive.org/details/americanlegionma506amer