#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness
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About this episode
<p>Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group.</p>
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<p>Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.</p>
<p>OUTLINE:<br />
00:00 – Introduction<br />
06:20 – Epigenome<br />
10:28 – Evolution<br />
15:26 – Neanderthals<br />
27:15 – Origin of life on Earth<br />
43:44 – Life is a fight against physics<br />
49:56 – Life as a set of transformations<br />
51:35 – Time scales<br />
1:00:31 – Transformations of ideas in human civilization<br />
1:05:19 – Life is more than a rat race<br />
1:13:18 – Life sucks sometimes and that’s okay<br />
1:30:16 – Getting older<br />
1:36:21 – The best of MIT<br />
1:49:01 – Poem 1: The Snow<br />
2:01:52 – Love<br />
2:06:16 – Poem 2: The Tide Waters</p>