#lynne margulies

[mariocki]

The Aftermath (1982)

"What happens when you die?"

"I don't know, son. No one does."

"It's sad to die."

"No. Death isn't sad. We all have to die. What's sad is having to go on without someone you love. Just as we have to go on now."

[scifipinups]

Lynne Margulies Zombie Aftermath [The Aftermath] (1982)

[lindahall]

Lynn Margulis – Scientist of the Day

Lynn Margulis, an American biologist and geneticist, died Nov. 22, 2011, at the age of 73. 

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[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

March 5th, 1938: American biologist Lynn Margulis was born. Her widespread contributions rewrote our understanding of early life and her ideas were so radical they were rejected and ignore for a decade before she was vindicated.

It’s thanks to Dr. Margulis that we understand why the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell!

[spilledreality]

On conflict theory

Basically, the first serious attempt at creating a scientific field of archaeology was done by 19th century Germans, and they looked around and dug some stuff up and concluded that the prehistoric world looked like the world of Conan the Barbarian: lots of “population replacement,” which is a euphemism for genocide and/or systematic slavery and mass rape. This 19th century German theory then became popular with some 20th century Germans who... uh... made the whole thing fall out of fashion by trying to put it into practice. After those 20th century Germans were squashed, any ideas they were even tangentially associated with them became very unfashionable, and so there was a scientific revolution in archaeology! I'm sure this was just crazy timing, and actually everybody rationally sat down and reexamined the evidence and came to the conclusion that the disgraced theory was wrong (lol, lmao). Whatever the case, the new view was that the prehistoric world was incredibly peaceful, and everybody was peacefully trading with one another, and this thing where sometimes in a geological stratum one kind of house totally disappears and is replaced by a different kind of house is just that everybody decided at once that the other kind of house was cooler. The high-water mark of this revisionist paradigm even had people saying that the Vikings were mostly peaceful traders who sailed around respecting the non-aggression principle. And then people started sequencing ancient DNA and...it turns out the bad old 19th century Germans were correct about pretty much everything. The genetic record is one of whole peoples frequently disappearing or, even more commonly, all of the men disappearing and other men carrying off the dead men's female relatives. There are some exceptions to this, but by and large the old theory wins.

from Mr & Mrs Smith, cf Margulis vs Dawkins, Graeber vs Hobbes, and critiques of Randall Collins's (via Weber) conflict theory

[wellconstructedsentences]

There will be a layer in the fossil record where you'll know people were here because of the squashed remains of automobiles. Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.

Microcosmos by Lynn Margulis

[amalgamads-aneacc]

Omg i stumbled with an old nerdy comic that I made years ago

That I definitely should remake

[vainlungs]

“[A]ny process that recombines genes (DNA) in an individual cell or organism from more than a single source. . . . [It] may occur at the nucleic acid, nuclear, cytoplasmic, and other levels.” Sex may occur through cosmic irradiation, virus and symbiont acquisition, or exposure to ambient chemicals.

—Myra Hird, Digesting Difference: Metabolism and the Question of Sexual Difference in Configurations 20:3

[bythesametolkien]

man: “hey girl. you’re a biologist right?”

woman: “yes……. but I don’t understand physics. you must be so smart.”

man: “yes, physics is very complicated. but I can explain it to you.”

woman: “wow. forget being scientist in my own right, can I be your housewife?”

[yo-sostenible]

Lynn Margulis, la bióloga que situó la simbiosis en el centro de la evolución

▫️La bióloga evolutiva Lynn Margulis fue una de las principales contribuidoras a esta disciplina, gracias a su teoría de la endosimbiosis. Nació 5 de marzo de 1938, en Chicago (EE UU). Por Curro Oñate En su larga trayectoria recibió las máximas distinciones de la carrera científica en su campo, gracias al tamaño y calidad de su contribución investigadora. Los galardones incluyen la Medalla…

[leolithe]

Lotus goes to 1999 and her alias is Lin/Lynn as another reference to Lynn Margulis

I think they have a lot of fun with the fashion of the era too... Natah is very quiet in the headspace because she's downloading eeeeverything there is to know about 1999

[mybeingthere]

Jaume Llorens is a Spanish photographer who has been passionate about photography since his teens.

"Around the age of 16, in high school, we were introduced to a photography course, and I fell in love with it. So much so that once it was over, I asked my parents if I could enroll in a distance learning program to deepen my knowledge. There was no other means to enroll in a photography class where I lived at that time (early 1980s). Thus, my parents agreed. After completing the course, I was able to establish a small darkroom at home where I worked on black and white photography. Some friends and I would gather to develop our photos and enjoy the magic of the creative process.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Banyoles, a small town with only a few thousand residents at that time. It was a neighborhood of families mostly from rural backgrounds who had been forced to migrate to the city to work in factories. My entire family is of rural origin. Both my parents and grandparents never stopped working the land and raising livestock. I as well participated in many of these tasks. The connection with nature was always there.

I suppose this early interaction with nature was this initial bond the permeates my current work. Over the years, the countryside has been depopulated. However, the more in-land we go, the further our contact is with nature and our origins. I believe the need to regain that contact is a continuous theme in my work."

https://www.vb-contemporary.com/.../interview-artist...

[magnetictapedatastorage]

Throughout her career, Margulis' work could arouse intense objections, and her formative paper, "On the Origin of Mitosing Cells", appeared in 1967 after being rejected by about fifteen journals. It was finally accepted by Journal of Theoretical Biology.

The endosymbiosis theory of organogenesis became widely accepted in the early 1980s, after the genetic material of  mitochondria and chloroplasts had been found to be significantly different from that of the symbiont's nuclear DNA.

[tanadrin]

Kary Mullis, Lynn Margulis, and Marija Gimbutas all seem to be of a type to me, i.e. visionaries in their field who had some key discovery or insight and then descended into wild speculation unsupported by evidence after.