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British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.

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  Boredom is when the mind starts assembling ideas on its own.

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  sometimes boredom is when the backbrain starts assembling pieces of things to amuse itself.

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Cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; writes Ground Truths on biomedical research, and wrote Super Agers and Deep Medicine.

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  Brain ageing is not gradual wear: around midlife the brain's original immune cells are replaced by inflammatory cells that came from the blood.

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  The original brain microglia (Micro1) are replaced by transformed monocytes (Micro 2) that are highly inflammatory.

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Cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; writes Ground Truths on biomedical research, and wrote Super Agers and Deep Medicine.

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  The brain and the immune system act as the master regulators of ageing: when they age at a normal pace, survival over the following 15 years is near total.

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  Accordingly, the brain and immune system have the appearance of master regulators of the aging process.

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Geneticist at Harvard; reads ancient DNA to work out how populations moved and mixed, and wrote Who We Are and How We Got Here.

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  The weak selection signal on behavioural traits is a shortage of statistical power, not evidence that behaviour was unselected.

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  It may still be the case, and I guess it is, that immune traits are the most selected category, but is not at all the case, and in fact, we can prove it's not the case that behavioral traits are not selected.

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Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.

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  Mattering

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  Mattering by journalist Jennifer Wallace (January)

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Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.

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  The Code Breaker

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  I mistakenly expected this to be a somewhat shallow, generic popular science book, but it was a very thorough account of how CRISPR gene editing emerged from decades of obscure basic research into bacterial immune systems.

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  Boredom is a missing skill rather than a property of the situation: there is infinity in every direction, including a blank wall.

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  And so it's not really about the environment or the wall. It's really about how we see it and whether we can find the thing that is deep and rich and infinite in that direction.

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