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Computing for Biologists: Python Programming and Principles

Computing for Biologists: Python Programming and Principles

A biology-themed introduction to computing and Python programming

2014

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ILLUMINATION-Curated

What Evolutionary Biology Says About the Future of AI

Rather than a pure robot civilization springing up de novo, it’s more likely that AI will integrate itself into things that already exist…

5 min readFeb 18, 2024

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What Evolutionary Biology Says About the Future of AI

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ILLUMINATION-Curated

Evolution and aging: do the dinosaurs have anything to do with human senescence?

How senescence evolves

6 min readJan 6, 2024

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Evolution and aging: do the dinosaurs have anything to do with human senescence?

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ILLUMINATION

The diet of our ancestors: what tapeworms tell us about human evolution

Most of us don’t think about tapeworms much. They’re uncommon in the developed world, and kind of gross. But it turns out the little…

5 min readOct 19, 2023

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Image of the parasitic flatworm Taenia solium.

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ILLUMINATION

What Can We Learn From A Sleeping Octopus?

In recent years, an accumulation of research has made very clear how important getting enough sleep is for human health. There’s a wider…

3 min readJul 21, 2023

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Adventures in metabolism: If your cat eats antifreeze, you can ask your vet to get him drunk

The main ingredient in antifreeze is a compound called ethylene glycol (also found in various other products). This stuff is really bad to…

5 min readMar 20, 2023

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Adventures in metabolism: If your cat eats antifreeze, you can ask your vet to get him drunk

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ILLUMINATION

Youth and the Pleistocene Climate

The connection between climate change and adolescence

3 min readDec 1, 2021

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Youth and the Pleistocene Climate

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ILLUMINATION

Things Not Seen

Reflections on Life and Science in the Pandemic

4 min readSep 16, 2021

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An image showing dinosaur tracks in red rock from Tuba City Arizona.

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Medium Coronavirus Blog

A Closer Look at the Alarming Resurgence of Covid-19 in Manaus, Brazil

What sequence analysis and computation reveal about the deadly spread of the virus

7 min readMay 12, 2021

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Phylogenetic tree, redrawn and simplified based on
https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global

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Microbial Instincts

Roosting with Bats (Not a Good Idea)

A few months before the pandemic my family stayed at a hotel on Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. The place was run by an expatriate…

4 min readApr 14, 2021

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Roosting with Bats (Not a Good Idea)

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Time in Lake Turkana

An account of a fortuitous visit to a fossil site

5 min readApr 7, 2021

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Time in Lake Turkana

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Eliot Bush

Eliot Bush

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Professor of computational biology and evolution at Harvey Mudd College. Current research focuses on microbial genome evolution.

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