The PaperCast is quiet right now as I am listening to the audio book of Life as No One Knows It by Sara Imari Walker. This is a very interesting book which explores the concept of Assembly Theory: a new conceptual paradigm for physics in which the lineages of objects takes center stage. In effect, it folds the idea of evolution into physics. I am not yet sure what I think. However, I do want to run an Honors seminar around this book – ideally including students from both my 132 and my quantum II class. The motivation for such a seminar would be an investigation on how physics is a living discipline and that we may not even yet have the “final” paradigm. I am also interested because Prof. Walker seems a physicist who is very fluent in the cultural ways of the life sciences, which is also of interest to me.