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by jhedwards 962 days ago
The political thought of Louis Brandeis and George Kennan. These two men are very different, but between them they seem to have comprehended and sometimes even developed solutions to nearly all the large issues facing our country and world today.

That and cellular communication. The g-protein coupled receptor[0] is basically an all-purpose biological switch. Combined with other messaging pathways it is used to build complex logic into cell message/response networks.

[0] https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/gpcr-14047471/