[ExI] Life began with a planetary mega-organism?

[The Avantguardian]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>
> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
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> Sent: Friday, December 2, 2011 2:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Life began with a planetary mega-organism?
> 
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 11:43:32PM -0700, Kelly Anderson wrote:
> 
>> So where do I go to get the best current thinking on the subject.
> 
> The usual staples like Nature and Science Magazine are pretty 
> scarce on OoL articles, so I would ask Google (Scholar?) for 
> origin of life and journal or somesuch combination of search 
> terms, and drill down to the major peer reviewed journals of the field.
> Most of them won't be open access and subscriptions will be
> pricey, so the easiest way to find them would be your local
> university library (or some pirate resources out there, shiver
> me timbers).

FWIW, I have figured out that for any really involved research project it is often cheaper to enroll in some easy class at a nearby university and get free library access then pay for all the articles involved in your research. I mean $200 for an art appreciation class for one semester can easily net you over a thousand dollars of journal articles.


Stuart LaForge
 
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -Clay Shirky