Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
4/5 stars
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Lab Girl is the journey of Hope Jahren who is a paleobiologist, and basically studies plants and soil.
This was a very interesting book for me, but I must caveat that I am a medical scientist myself, so I liked hearing the journey of another female scientist.
One of the challenges for Hope was that she had some emotional issues until she found a good doctor and the right medications. I could understand how this would have made things very challenging for her.
It was basically a good book, and not too "science-deep" if you're not a scientist. I think it also gives the reader a good appreciation of what goes into study of things, and how hard it is to raise the needed funds, while the money continues to roll into the military machine year after year.
Publish or perish is a real thing in academia.
I have lost jobs due to grants running out, it's a common thing in science.
Good book, good read.
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