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I did not expect this biography to turn into a murder mystery investigation. This is nuts!

Damn, David Starr Jordan was the first president of Stanford?? I didn't see that coming, that's nuts.

Again, I love the chapter I just read talking about the people in one's life that encouraged their scientific interest. It makes me really want to reflect on my own experience and who's helped me onto the path I now flourish in.

This book is incredible so far. I am loving this historical recounting of just the name and societal perception of Tuberculosis disease. The fact that it was once ROMANTICIZED by Europeans and Americans is insane! And once Koch identified the bacterium, which helped us better understand its mode of transmission and how to better control it, it then became a disease that mostly inflicted poorer populations. Crazy.

This book is incredible so far. John Green has such a way of telling the history/story of a scientific concept while interjecting his own narrative & experiences alongside it.

Re-reading this book because my lab mates all got a copy and are talking about it.

What a lovely read so far. Not the direction I was expecting a cancer patient with the knowledge that he has months to live to take, but I enjoy it nonetheless.

Goodness, the essay on Plague was hauntingly beautiful. It's so incredibly important to practice empathy, especially towards those experiencing hardships in rates greater than us. A terrible situation need not result in a terrible response. We must be better.

"Rivers keep going, and we keep going, but there is no way back.. But the memory still holds me together." Damn John Green, I didn't realize how poetic you were.