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Comment I think (Score 1) 227

In any writing, feedback is the most important resource you can use to improve your document. That's where education needs to lend itself, in collaboration. When I was in school, a person would basically write whatever, and a teacher would give your grade, nothing more nothing less. I think the peers need to be versed on the rules of the game (grammar), and then they can do their jobs of helping to help you project meaning, flow, etc. There is nothing better than this. Matter of fact, science sort of works this way: let your peers review, knowing that you both understand the rules (scientific methods), and come up with better, and ongoing threads. Sorry i posted AC at first. .

Comment code! (Score 1) 555

if ((story != open source)(isM$)(avg(scorepoints) = 3))
{
      return string ("Microsoft did something good, even though it took them a while?");
}

Is Evolution Predictable? 298

An anonymous reader writes "C|Net is carrying a story about some research out of Rice University. They are exploring the possibility that we can predict the evolution of a species, given environmental factors." From the article: "Typically, the bacteria can continue to thrive when the temperature hits 73 degrees Celsius (163 degrees Fahrenheit). The experimental strain of bacteria contained a mutated version of a gene that, in the naturally occurring strain of the microbe, produces a protein that made existence possible. They then put these mutant strains in environments where the temperature rose slowly but steadily, and studied how different generations coped with the changing temperature. In the breeding that followed, millions of new mutations of the gene in question were produced, but only about 700 of those variants replicated some of the functionality of the naturally occurring gene."

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