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Have not watched or listened to news, NPR shows, read newspapers, barely walked the dog, sleeping more..... I'm binging on "The Gene" and loving it. Surfing on some new level of understanding of most interesting science and thought, an fMRI of my brain would show fireworks as I trip on Siddhartha Mukherjee's "intimate history" of the gene. Unfortunately, I have a mind like a Looney Tunes animal whose head has been riddled with bullet holes and the information keeps leaking out. I have read and reread, listened and re-listened to sections and chapters over and over again, trying to lock in the concepts. The stories of the scientists are fine enough but the biology, chemistry and engineering are super-cool. Who is Siddhartha Mukherjee besides the Pulitzer prize-winning author of "The Emperor of All Maladies"? Merely a gene carrier(!) who, along with Sarah Sze (artist- see above) produced these two genetically blessed daughters:
Check out mom from this 2012 New Yorker article:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/05/14/a-million-little-pieces
Looking forward to getting together to discuss....
Mindful reading,
LK
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