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Online usersWho's NewPollA year after Obamalini's election, who is shaping up as a credible next President?
Sarah Palin
22%
Mitt Romney
9%
Ron Paul
13%
Bobby Jindal
13%
Mike Huckabee
3%
Glenn Beck
9%
Leonard Peikoff
16%
Tim Pawlenty
6%
Other (please specify)
9%
Total votes: 32
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How Life? Submitted by Stephen Boydstun on Wed, 2008-12-31 13:01
How Life? (How Value?)
“The Origin of Life on the Earth” Leslie E. Orgel Scientific American (Oct 1994)
“Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of the RNA World” Leslie E. Orgel (2004) Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 39(2):99–123.
Robert Shapiro Scientific American (Jun 2007)
Jack W. Szostak, David P. Bartel, and P. Luigi Luisi (2001) Nature 409:387–390
“Designing a New Molecule of Life” Peter E. Neilsen Scientific American (Dec 2008)
Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology Ed Regis (2008)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Related The Way of the Cell –Franklin M. Harold (2001, OUP)
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 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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Inorganic to Organic
From the mineral peridotite, together with water, CO2, and geothermal heat, come organic compounds good for making life (without sunlight): the organic acids formate and acetate as well as gases such as methane. At Lost City Hydrothermal Fields, the proportion of carbon 13 to carbon 12 in the lipids of native microbes is not the proportion in carbon derived from CO2-producing organisms. Life on earth may have emerged in vent systems similar to Lost City.
Scientific American – December 2009 (pages 62–67)
Alexander S. Bradley
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Protocells
Protocells: Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter
Edited by S. Rasmussen, M. A. Bedau, L. Chen, D. Deamer, D. C. Krakauer, N. H. Packard, and P. F. Stadler
MIT 2008