Can Jellyfish Unlock The Secret Of Immortality Summary

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Tenderness is described as affection for someone or something other than himself or herself. In the anthology "The Best American Science and Nature Writing " Siddhartha Mukherjee describes tenderness as an intimate connection between human beings and nature (xvii). Mukherjee's interpretation of tenderness applies specifically to science, scientist, and the quality scientist should show when performing any form of scientific work. “ Can Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?” by Nathaniel Rich accurately exhibits Mukherjee's interpretation of tenderness towards science, the article describes the patient nature of how science happens, the process of finding new discoveries in the article are a human-made process, and the scientist mentioned shares an intimate connection with his subject. The article " Can Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?" by Nathaniel Rich accurately exhibits Mukherjee's interpretation of tenderness towards science, because the article describes the patient nature of how science …show more content…

Mukherjee claims that "Most of the selected essays share a common thread: they describe how science happens. They do not present facts alone (although facts are abundant in them). They describe the extraordinary process by which scientist extract those facts” ( xix), and in the article, this idea is shown. The author of the article Nathaniel Rich painstakingly goes into detail about the process that Kubota takes into exploring his jellyfish (Turritopsis). Rich does not focus on just the facts alone while he does often add facts to add authenticity to his article. Rich focuses more so on the unfolding of Kubota’s work. An example is when Rich describes the process where Kubota mutilates the Turritopsis to get it to rejuvenate “With two fine metal picks, the began to perforate the medusa’s mesoglea . . . After Kubota poked it six times, the medusa behaved like any stabbing victim . . . But Kubota,

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