lash out in anger and destroy the people that make them feel that way

Small correction: “… destroy the people that they think make them feel that way”.

You are younger than me.

What’s something the 50-something-year-old knows that the 40-something-year-old doesn’t, and what does the 40-something-year-old know that you don’t?

Slowpoke Rodriguez!

The full text of the “umbilical dirt” paper (cited at the end of the WaPo article) is freely available.

Here’s a paper about self-replicating proteins, and this one is about self-replicating clay crystal structures, and how they might have been catalysts for biomolecule synthesis.