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The "extraordinary book [thats] about a basic fact of biology" is part of the "one last thing of utmost importance I feel compelled to teach," Bezos wrote, adding the following excerpt: "Staving off death is a thing that you have to work at. Left to itself – and that is what it is when it dies – the body tends to revert to a state of equilibrium with its environment ... Our bodies, for instance, are usually hotter than our surroundings, and in cold climates they have to work hard to maintai...

The "extraordinary book [thats] about a basic fact of biology" is part of the "one last thing of utmost importance I feel compelled to teach," Bezos wrote, adding the following excerpt: "Staving off death is a thing that you have to work at. Left to itself – and that is what it is when it dies – the body tends to revert to a state of equilibrium with its environment ... Our bodies, for instance, are usually hotter than our surroundings, and in cold climates they have to work hard to maintai...

April 15, 2021 In 1997, the year Amazon went public, founder and longtime CEO Jeff Bezos started writing an annual letter to the company’s shareholders. Today, Amazon published his final letter as CEO. At the end of the year, Bezos intends to step aside and become executive chair, a post that will allow him to focus on endeavors such as his space company, Blue Origin, his ownership of the Washington Post, and the charitable funds he has founded. In his parting words as the company’s top ex...

Here’s why Jeff Bezos quoted a 1986 book about human evolution in his shareholders letter April 15, 2021 at 10:05 am The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins’ bestselling 1986 book that skewers the notion of intelligent design while celebrating the rational science of evolution, got its star turn today in Jeff Bezos’ final shareholder letter as CEO of Amazon. Specifically, Bezos quoted this passage on what the natural fight to stay alive means from a purely biological standpoint: “Staving ...

Crocodiles evolved in a way called punctuated equilibrium, with tandem short- and long-lived species. The same may be true of other “living fossil” species around the world. It’s been 200 million years, but crocodiles haven’t aged a day. You love badass beasts. So do we. Lets nerd out over them together. In a new paper, scientists from the U.K. explain how this notorious “living fossil” has kept its rugged good looks since the heyday of the dinosaurs. In the study, the researchers ...

lot of the time, including through the cold and difficult winter months. Today, we know that hibernating animals walk a very fine line of preparation and subsistence, building fat stores and activating biological triggers to lower body temperature and metabolism. But while modern humans have technology that staves off nutritional diseases, for example, our prehistoric ancestors had no such luck. ZZZZZ It’s in these absences, which leave physical marks on the human skeleton, that researche...

New AI research shows that a major cornerstone of evolutionary theory could be totally wrong. By analyzing species data, the algorithm found die-outs and flourishing arent usually linked. There are way more "top 5 percent" population events than we might have realized. Scientists have new evidence that Earth’s many periodic mass extinctions follow a cycle of about 27 million years, connecting the five major mass extinctions with more minor ones occurring throughout Earth’s life-fostering ti...