{"id":5462,"date":"2011-11-23T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=5462"},"modified":"2011-11-23T11:20:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:20:52","slug":"lynn-margulis-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/11\/23\/lynn-margulis-r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynn Margulis, r.i.p."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/11\/23\/lynn-margulis-r-i-p\/225px-lynn_margulis\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5463\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5463\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2011\/11\/225px-Lynn_Margulis.jpg?resize=106%2C160\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2011\/11\/225px-Lynn_Margulis.jpg?resize=183%2C275&amp;ssl=1 183w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2011\/11\/225px-Lynn_Margulis.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2011\/11\/225px-Lynn_Margulis.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newappsblog.com\/2011\/11\/in-memoriam-lynn-margulis.html\">this<\/a> last night. She <a href=\"http:\/\/bugtracks.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/22\/lynn-margulis\/\">died<\/a> peacefully at her home in Massachusetts yesterday evening, surrounded by family.<\/p>\n<p>(We had just seen her son <a href=\"http:\/\/edge.org\/memberbio\/dorion_sagan\">Dorion Sagan<\/a>, son of Carl, give a great talk at the anthropology conference last Friday, after which he and his partner had to speed back to Toronto to get their passports to fly to Boston.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/brainstorm\/lynn-margulis-1938-2011\/41562\">She<\/a> was one of most <a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2011\/apr\/16-interview-lynn-margulis-not-controversial-right\">important<\/a> biologists of the past century, and the female face of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/documents\/ThirdCulture\/n-Ch.7.html\">Gaia<\/a> hypothesis, the radical implications of which have yet to be recognized. (They go beyond the popular interpretations and involve the importance of understanding <a href=\"http:\/\/evolution.berkeley.edu\/evolibrary\/article\/history_24\">symbiosis<\/a> and the role of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.context.org\/ICLIB\/IC34\/Margulis.htm\">bacteria<\/a> in life on Earth.)<\/p>\n<p>May she rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard about this last night. She died peacefully at her home in Massachusetts yesterday evening, surrounded by family. (We had just seen her son Dorion Sagan, son of Carl, give a great talk at the anthropology conference last Friday, after which he and his partner had to speed back to Toronto to get their passports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[691847],"tags":[25080,25081],"class_list":["post-5462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-spirituality","tag-margulis","tag-scientists"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-1q6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1032,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/02\/23\/kauffman-shaviro-goodwin-et-al\/","url_meta":{"origin":5462,"position":0},"title":"Kauffman, Shaviro, Goodwin, et al.","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"February 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Complexity theorist Stuart Kaufmann recently gave a talk here from his book Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion, which is getting more press these days than most books with a Spinozian\/Whiteheadian take on the emergent nature of intelligence, complexity, spirituality, and all that. 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