#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness

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<p>Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group.</p> <p>Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast:<br /> &#8211; <strong>Public Goods</strong>: <a href="https://publicgoods.com/lex">https://publicgoods.com/lex</a> and use code LEX<br /> &#8211; <strong>Magic Spoon</strong>: <a href="https://magicspoon.com/lex">https://magicspoon.com/lex</a> link &#38; using code LEX at checkout<br /> &#8211; <strong>ExpressVPN</strong>:&#160;<a href="https://www.expressvpn.com/lexpod">https://www.expressvpn.com/lexpod</a></p> <p>Lex Fridman Podcast survey mentioned in the intro: <a href="https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5833660/Lex-Fridman-Podcast-Survey">https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5833660/Lex-Fridman-Podcast-Survey</a></p> <p>If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/podcast">https://lexfridman.com/podcast</a>&#160;or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1434243584">Apple Podcasts</a>, follow on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL">Spotify</a>, or support it on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman">Patreon</a>.</p> <p>Here&#8217;s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.</p> <p>OUTLINE:<br /> 00:00 &#8211; Introduction<br /> 06:20 &#8211; Epigenome<br /> 10:28 &#8211; Evolution<br /> 15:26 &#8211; Neanderthals<br /> 27:15 &#8211; Origin of life on Earth<br /> 43:44 &#8211; Life is a fight against physics<br /> 49:56 &#8211; Life as a set of transformations<br /> 51:35 &#8211; Time scales<br /> 1:00:31 &#8211; Transformations of ideas in human civilization<br /> 1:05:19 &#8211; Life is more than a rat race<br /> 1:13:18 &#8211; Life sucks sometimes and that&#8217;s okay<br /> 1:30:16 &#8211; Getting older<br /> 1:36:21 &#8211; The best of MIT<br /> 1:49:01 &#8211; Poem 1: The Snow<br /> 2:01:52 &#8211; Love<br /> 2:06:16 &#8211; Poem 2: The Tide Waters</p>