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#16 96well

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Posted 30 October 2010 - 12:29 PM

From the inventor of PCR, the Nobel prize Kary Mullis: Dancing Naked in the Mind Field Mullis is no shy, socially inept bench chemist, though; on the contrary, he has led as big and full a life as possible, opening himself to experiences like hallucinogenic drugs, surfing, casually handling dangerous chemicals, and taking shots at the sacred cows of science.
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Posted 31 October 2010 - 03:23 PM

View Postadrian kohsf, on 30 October 2010 - 10:11 AM, said:

Hmn... never come across any of the mentioned book at the moment... but this one really catch my attention:
"Surviving Your Stupid Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School"



LOL Adrian. Who is the author? I'll look into that one.

Other good ones:

Y: Descent of Man
Mendel's Dwarf (some R-rated parts, didn't care for those)
Best Science Writing of(pick your year, anthology of essays on different sciences)
42..."An immutable fixed-precision number of unlimited magnitude." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)</a>, accessed 25June2009.

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Posted 20 April 2011 - 02:06 AM

Paul de Kruif - Microbe Hunters... I read it... such a nice one.

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Posted 20 April 2011 - 05:22 AM

I found the books by Michael J Fox pretty inspiring--not straight science, but about medical research in general. Another good one is the seven daughters of eve by bryan sykes.

#20 Adrian K

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Posted 20 April 2011 - 06:55 AM

View Postlab rat, on 31 October 2010 - 03:23 PM, said:

View Postadrian kohsf, on 30 October 2010 - 10:11 AM, said:

Hmn... never come across any of the mentioned book at the moment... but this one really catch my attention:
"Surviving Your Stupid Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School"



LOL Adrian. Who is the author? I'll look into that one.

Other good ones:

Y: Descent of Man
Mendel's Dwarf (some R-rated parts, didn't care for those)
Best Science Writing of(pick your year, anthology of essays on different sciences)



Hi Lab Rat... sorry for not noticed your post.
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