Copied, Never Pasted

Strega Nona's pasta pot, and the recipe your cells copy. What the copy carries, what it leaves out, what breaks it down, and what pastes it in. Part two of four.

Not in the Cookbook

Its food, not its genes, decides whether a honeybee larva becomes a queen. Your genes are a cookbook: what it counts, keeps, answers, misses, and cannot decide.