Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group.
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OUTLINE: 00:00 - Introduction 06:20 - Epigenome 10:28 - Evolution 15:26 - Neanderthals 27:15 - Origin of life on Earth 43:44 - Life is a fight against physics 49:56 - Life as a set of transformations 51:35 - Time scales 1:00:31 - Transformations of ideas in human civilization 1:05:19 - Life is more than a rat race 1:13:18 - Life sucks sometimes and that's okay 1:30:16 - Getting older 1:36:21 - The best of MIT 1:49:01 - Poem 1: The Snow 2:01:52 - Love 2:06:16 - Poem 2: The Tide Waters https://lexfridman.com/manolis-kellis-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=manolis-kellis-2
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