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[a-soul-awake.livejournal.com]

Another birthday, still no Nobel Prize.

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[awolftoman.livejournal.com]

In what field were you hoping to earn one?

[a-soul-awake.livejournal.com]

Physiology or Medicine.

[awolftoman.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. And what is the nature of your project and research, may I ask?

[a-soul-awake.livejournal.com]

My specialty is the X-gene. I'm a geneticist.

[awolftoman.livejournal.com]

Really! I am afraid I know little about that-- this has to do with the so-called Homo superior? Genetics is a field of more interest to my wife.

[a-soul-awake.livejournal.com]

It's a very complicated field of genetics. No one really knows it since the media dulls down everything. Is your wife a researcher as well?

[awolftoman.livejournal.com]

Oh, I believe that. Nadia has tried on occasion to explain some of her work to me, but I am more at home with things of a scale that I can touch and hold.

She is; she lectures occasionally on genetics at La Sapienza, in Roma.

[a-soul-awake.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I've read any of her work.

That's quite a position.

[awolftoman.livejournal.com]

You might have; I know she publishes, although I have lost track of just what journals and so forth. When I can only understand perhaps half of each abstract... *self-deprecating smile* Nadia Ferretti would be the name.

She's earned it.

[a-soul-awake.livejournal.com]

The point of research is to publish. I have read a few of her articles. She's does some interesting work.

[awolftoman.livejournal.com]

I thought the point of research was to discover. *wry smile*

Thank you, I shall be sure to let her know someone thinks so.

[a-soul-awake.livejournal.com]

*she waves a hand* No one knows what you've discovered if you don't publish. They go hand in hand these days.

You're welcome.

[house-onthehill.livejournal.com]

Is that always on your birthday list?

[a-soul-awake.livejournal.com]

Yes. That and an invitation to give a TED talk.