“Defining Life: A Conversation” by Levin and Kofman My favorite prof at the University of Nebraska was an English professor, Robert Knoll. Every single class he taught was a revelation. He was one of the most cherished professors on campus. His classes were always full and I would always leave his provocative lectures feeling my…

Michael Levin asked 68 scientists including myself: What is life? We came back with 68 different answers. My definition was the least “lab-coat” of the bunch. On purpose. Mike’s paper is called What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life. It maps everyone’s answer on a graph. Defining life is notoriously…

By Perry Marshall, Founder, ReversingCancer.org and Evolution 2.0 Your kidney used to be a great place to work. Good morale. Long coffee breaks. Nice boss. But the place started stinking like a gym locker. Hours too long, breaks cut short, food is lousy. One of your kidney cells starts looking around and thinking: get me…

This 3-hour interview delivers a tiny universe of insights every five to ten minutes:      

Anthony Hilb lives with asthma and chronic respiratory issues. In May 2025, he experienced a medical crisis that caused him to briefly lose consciousness and have a near-death experience. In this conversation, Anthony shares what he encountered during those crucial minutes and what the experience has meant to him since. We also explore documented accounts…

The presentations at Denis Noble’s Oxford 2026 Evolution conference are not just philosophical / academic dithering, but impact health care, technology, disease. Your life. When your sister-in-law gets diagnosed with breast cancer, her doctors are shooting at gene mutations… while the genome rearranges its entire chessboard. No wonder resistance appears in months. Understanding actual evolutionary…

10 years ago Denis Noble had a standoff with 23 Royal Society Fellows and it took a minor miracle for his 2016 Evolution conference to take place. That once conference radically shifted the field. Denis is a physiologist famous for figuring out how the cardiac rhythm works. He knocked out genes to figure out how…

Jay Cross interviews me about my new paper, The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in the Biological Sciences (co-authored with Sy Garte and Stuart Kauffman.) Together we explore why “there are no equal signs in biology,” how this revelation redefines medicine as we know it, and the post-computational, post-permission future of healing—with new hope for people…

Perry describes a series of life changing “thin place” experiences that shifted his reality. This was presented to Adam Safron’s Sapience group followed by a guided meditation and a Q&A at the end. A further expansion on these ideas is online at perrymarshall.com/ireland. Link to this podcast here.

Listen to the podcast here! Sy Garte’s book, Beyond Evolution, is written for the person who is trying to reconcile their deep yearnings for meaning and significance with the longstanding scientific dogma that nature has no purpose. Not only is the tide shifting dramatically inside of secular science, the new discoveries are connecting gaps between…