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255); display: inline !important; float: none;">From a NY Times
article on the biologist investigating the immortal jellyfish:<br>
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href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/magazine/can-a-jellyfish-unlock-the-secret-of-immortality.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/magazine/can-a-jellyfish-unlock-the-secret-of-immortality.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</a><br>
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255); display: inline ! important; float: none;">Kubota grew up
in Matsuyama, on the southern island of Shikoku. Though his
father was a teacher, Kubota didn’t get excellent marks at his
high school, where he was a generation behind Kenzaburo Oe. “I
didn’t study,” he said. “I only read science fiction.” But when
he was admitted to college, his grandfather bought him a
biological encyclopedia. It sits on one of his office shelves,
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</tt><tt>“I learned a lot from that book,” Kubota said. “I read
every page.” He was especially impressed by the phylogenetic tree,
the taxonomic diagram that Darwin called the Tree of Life. Darwin
included one of the earliest examples of a Tree of Life in “On the
Origin of Species” — it is the book’s only illustration. Today the
outermost twigs and buds of the Tree of Life are occupied by
mammals and birds, while at the base of the trunk lie the most
primitive phyla — Porifera (sponges), Platyhelminthes (flatworms),
Cnidaria (jellyfish).</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>“The mystery of life is not concealed in the higher
animals,” Kubota told me. “It is concealed in the root. And at the
root of the Tree of Life is the jellyfish.”</tt><tt><br>
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Jellyfish are interesting to trojan writers. Deep at their heart
they are colony creatures, with stealth capabilities. What could
be more pertinent to those of us who feed on the world's
information like opportunistic predators?<br>
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Right now my feeling is that the world has been lucky because most
of the malicious software on the internet has been, at worst, a
rapscallion, or a scofflaw, or perhaps a ne'er-do-well. And
there are modern networks who fare pretty well against that kind
of adversary. But longer term, there's going to be malware that
resembles <a
href="http://www.immunityinc.com/downloads/TheLongRun.pdf">science
fiction</a>...or maybe jellyfish? :><br>
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