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had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.
Mary Doria Russell • The Sparrow: A Novel (The Sparrow series Book 1)
Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, created viruses with radioactive tracers in their DNA. They allowed the viruses to infect E. coli and then pulled off their empty husks in a fast-spinning centrifuge.
Carl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
Voyage of the Beagle,
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Kendrick and Eldering received very little recognition for this work, turning down most requests from the media even decades later, and little financial reward. They shared their methods and formulae freely all over the world. They did everything right: chose a vital problem, did the crucial experiments to solve it, worked with communities to test ... See more
Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Unknown Mexico: A Record of Five Years’ Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre.
Christopher McDougall • Born to Run
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His singleminded approach was so successful that he was able to buy into the Harkness family business within a few years, and shortly afterward made the acquaintance of one of his Cleveland counterparts in the grain-brokerage chain, one John D. Rockefeller.