Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group.

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Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

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