{"id":8340,"date":"2010-02-11T06:11:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T06:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/happy-100-jacques-monod-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2010-02-11T06:11:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T06:11:44","slug":"happy-100-jacques-monod-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/happy-100-jacques-monod-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Happy 100, Jacques Monod | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b5bbb_mon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"199\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">The great French biologist Jacques Monod would have turned 100 today. I am personally fond of him for having said, &ldquo;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/science-news\/3345320\/E.-coli-why-I-am-in-love-with-a-bacterium.html\">What is true for <em>E. coli <\/em>is true for the elephant<\/a>,&rdquo; but he did much more than coin lovely phrases about microbes. His work on how genes switch on and off earned him a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/medicine\/laureates\/1965\/press.html\">Nobel<\/a> in 1965, and he also gave deep thought to the philosophy of biology, seeing it as the interplay of chance and necessity. Here&rsquo;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sandwalk.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/good-science-writers-jacques-monod.html\">a blog post from Larry Moran with more<\/a>, and here&rsquo;s Monod&rsquo;s 1971 book, <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0394466152?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=carlzimmercom&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0394466152\">Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology<\/a><\/em><\/p><p>[Thanks to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dimer.tamu.edu\/simplog\/?blogid=3\">Jim Hu<\/a> for pointing out this auspicious day!]<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/f2UU1kok6edPnIoyjaMBBDD9gNI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b5bbb_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/f2UU1kok6edPnIoyjaMBBDD9gNI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b5bbb_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/17b96_KaIFm_txVk4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/17b96_uHzP5BlpHlA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great French biologist Jacques Monod would have turned 100 today. I am personally fond of him for having said, &ldquo;What is true for E. coli is true for the elephant,&rdquo; but he did much more than coin lovely phrases &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/happy-100-jacques-monod-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}