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Mitochondria, like many bacteria, reproduce simply by dividing. Whenever a mitochondrion divides into two daughter mitochondria, each daughter gets an identical copy—give or take the odd mutation—of the original chromosome.
River Out of Eden
Richard Dawkins
IT WAS JANUARY 20, 1759, when English author Samuel Johnson said in his magazine The Idler, “Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.” That was 252 years ago. Nothing has changed.
Brand Against the Machine
John Michael Morgan
The model minority myth is often used to separate Asian Americans from other people of color by using their perceived socioeconomic and academic success and docile nature to compare and contrast with black Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. This divide-and-conquer technique serves to redirect struggle against oppressive White Supremacy to competition between Asian Americans and other people of color.
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
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