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Friday, August 22, 2003 How to Be a Better Speaker and Writer. Raymond over at Tiger Cafe has some good advice for technical geeks who want to learn to communicate more effectively. The key to the majority of his points is that one must focus more on the people who are being communicated to rather than oneself. I mean just think about it, who on earth would want to listen to someone only concerned about himself? Company Says It Mapped Genes of Virus in One Day. "Other scientists were more skeptical, saying that sequencing a virus, which has a tiny genome, is trivial and that there are aspects of the technology that might make it difficult to do more complex organisms." Of course other organisms are more complex and may be more difficult to determine--no one's arguing that. But to say that this is trivial? It may be easy and it may be fast, but nothing is trivial. Humans related to humble mud worm. My (perhaps completely unfounded) guess is that this worm is an example of devolution. That is, its genome may be similar to all the higher organisms, but over time, it may have lost the physical characteristics inherent in other deuterostomes to better fill its niche. What I find really curious is that this worm doesn't even have a proper gut and it is the structure of the gut that is one of the essential elements that defines the class of organisms that it is supposedly placed in. [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 3:55 PM : ]
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