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Author Archives: Ed Yong

The Renaissance man: how to become a scientist over and over again

By Ed Yong
Posted: June 8, 2011
Category: Guest Post | Tagged 3D genome, Applied Math, Bioengineering, culturomics, Ed Yong, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Google, Google ngram, Harvard, interdisciplinary, MIT, n-grams, Not Exactly Rocket Science, polymath, Steven Pinker | Leave a comment
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