Originally posted March 25, 2017 on Dustin's View:
https://dustinsview.com/poems/love-is-poem/

love is admiration
of the essence
of another

at best, it inspires —
compels you to contort
like a vine, twisting and turning
as it climbs to new heights

love is always a delusion
but it’s a healthy, vital delusion
like optimism
like purpose
like self

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Love Is [Poem]

Originally posted January 13, 2017 on Dustin's View:
https://dustinsview.com/songs/make-new-humans-meiosis-song/

Lyrics:
Double-stranded DNA
Gets undone by helicase
But you don’t really care about interphase, now do you?
The subject here is meiosis
The first prophase the cytokinesis
The process by which we make new humans

Make new humans [x4]

Well mitosis works pretty well
For cloning autosomal cells
But if you want real evolution, baby, it just won’t do you.
But imagine if during anaphase
Cohesin kept the chromatids in place,
So homologous chromosomes were the ones split by microtubules

Microtubules [x4]

Now when you’re making up haploid cells
Independent assortment is swell
If you wanna guarantee your progeny don’t look just like you
But why not pick up even more variation?
Through interchromosomal recombination
“Crossing over” helps us make new humans

Make new humans [x4]

Make New Humans (A Meiosis Song)

"Of the many dangerous untruths espoused by the Trump campaign, perhaps none was so flagrant as the one embedded right in the campaign’s central promise, 'Make America Great Again.'"

Originally posted January 21, 2017 on Dustin's View:
https://dustinsview.com/all/insult-absurdity-make-america-great/

The Insult and Absurdity of Make America Great Again

I'm an undergraduate student at Carleton College. This podcast is an audio version of my blog, which contains short reflective pieces, personal essays, and other forms of expression, chiefly related to environmental sustainability, technology, health, happiness, and peace.

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