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Do We Need a New Theory of Evolution?

The Guardian ran an excellent article on the revolution that is happening in evolutionary biology: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/28/do-we-need-a-new-theory-of-evolution This revolution is very much underway. The trickle turned into a flood in 2016 at the Royal Society. An article like this should have appeared in the Guardian afterward in November 2016 but didn’t. In fact, very little was…

Rethinking Cancer with Bernhard Strauss

A new book by MIT Press stresses the urgency of approaching cancer from new angles. Some are completely new. Others are 100 years old and never given the attention they deserve. Bernhard and I discuss his motivations for taking on this project and how complex systems are much more subtle than we humans prefer to…

How to Solve the World’s Most Intractable Problems

In September 2021, a dozen entrepreneurs gathered in Chicago and had a seminal 3-day discussion and commissioning for solving the world’s most thorny, intractable issues. Bob Regnerus was there and here we discuss what happens when entrepreneurs shift their focus from creature comforts to curing the most wicked problems of the world. Podcast Link: https://evo2.org/podcasts/how-to-solve-the-worlds-most-intractable-problems/

What Exactly is Cancer Anyway?

A very rare clinical oncologist plus theoretical biologist describes the landscape.   Doru Paul of Cornell University is one of those very rare people who has both treated over 10,000 cancer patients as their doctor and simultaneously holds a kaleidoscopic view of a huge range of research, theories and literature. Today we talk about the…

A Nobel Prize Winner Warned Me Not To Question Evolution

John Lennox is an Oxford mathematician who is the author of the new book Cosmic Chemistry. He’s written many books about the relationship between science and religion and has debated Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. His new book candidly surveys the current state of evolutionary theory. Notable chapters include reviews of work by Denis Noble…

Noble clashes with Dawkins this Saturday

The “How the Light Gets in Festival” will be featuring a debate between my mentor, friend and scientific hero Denis Noble and renowned atheist Richard Dawkins. They throw down at 10:30 AM BST Saturday June 4. A description of the debate topic is below. You can watch live by going here https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/festival-passes And scrolling down…

From Evolution to Cancer: The Oral History of Our 7-year Journey

 From Evolution to Curing Cancer: Our 7-year Journey In my book Evolution 2.0, published in 2015, the topic of cancer gets two pages. There, I said, “You’ll never understand cancer until you understand evolution.” I said evolution is an active, intentional process. (And I used the word intentional intentionally.) I said cells are intelligent,…

Henry Heng’s Genome Chaos

When you’re trying to solve a thorny, knotty, intractable, “IMPOSSIBLE” problem, the #1 thing to watch for is: Outsiders from radically different backgrounds, who not only all agree that the mainstream is hopelessly jacked up, but who ALSO came to identical conclusions – WITHOUT having ever talked to each other in advance. In Evolution 2.0…

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