
Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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How Do You Write Properly Against the Audience?
I realize that you could become an expert in inverted commerc a in areas you knew very little about, relatively quickly. So many of these diseases that i couldn't spell one day, the next day you read about them. And it turns out the three radical bio chemistry was central to the disease process. And so i was on home ground already. All these different diseases that i was writing about seemed to have the same basis in chemistry as to why they were going wrong. That was, that was thrilling, actually,. ar the other things you had to learn to write for an international audience where english is a second language generally.
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