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Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)

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How to Write a Book That Addresses the Deeper Intellectual Question

I realized that you could become an expert in inverted commerce, a in areas you knew very little about, relatively quickly. And it turns out the free radical bya chemistwy, was central to the disease process. All these different diseases that i was writing about seemed to have the same basis in chemistry as to why they were going wrong. So that was, that was thrilling. A the other things, yo, you had to learn to write for an international audience where english is a second language generally. That means cutout any flowery, verbose english, and try and write plainly and clearly, and also in er inner, in a continuous direction, moving forward.

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