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"Science also progresses by improved instrumentation and better recordkeeping. Star charts enabled celestial navigation. Gregor Mendel's careful counting of pea plants led to modern genetics. Johann Balmer's documentation of the exact spacing of hydrogen's emission spectra led to quantum mechanics. Things we believed to be beyond human kind—the sta
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Neuroscience
Abie Cohen and • 93 cards
But that ended in 2010, when the results of a four-year effort to map the Neanderthal genome were published.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
This involves, first, understanding powers of ten; second, visualizing data over a wide range of magnitudes on graphs using logarithmic scales; and third, appreciating the meaning of magnitude scales, such as the decibel (dB) scale for the loudness of sounds and the Richter scale for the strength of earthquakes.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter

Science of Visuals
Mike Taylor • 4 cards
for greater scientific understanding (23andMe) or in propagating user-submitted data to motivate behavior change in others (traineo).
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
Life Sciences AI
Nicolay Gerold • 1 card