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Organisms whose cells have a nucleus are called eucaryotes (from the Greek words eu, meaning “well” or “truly,” and karyon, a “kernel” or “nucleus”). Organisms whose cells do not have a nucleus are called procaryotes (from pro, meaning “before”). The terms “bacterium” and “procaryote” are often used interchangeably, although we shall see that the category of procaryotes also includes another class of cells, the archaea (singular archaeon), which are so remotely related to bacteria that they are given a separate name.
Essential Cell Biology
Bruce Alberts; Dennis Bray; Karen Hopkin; Alexander Johnson; Julian Lewis; Martin Raff; Keith Robert...
At one point Musk responded with a very self-aware email. “I am by nature obsessive-compulsive,” he wrote Fricker. “What matters to me is winning, and not in a small way. God knows why… it’s probably rooted in some very disturbing psychoanalytical black hole or neural short circuit.”
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them. It is a hard life, sometimes lonely, often short. I have told none to refuse that calling, but neither would I wish to increase their number.”
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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