Samantha’s Reviews > The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology > Status Update

the account of how they figured out protein synthesis much more interesting than account of how they solved the double helix, the amount of blind alleys Science™ went down before they got to the ribosome is wild

slow ramp-up but now we’ve been in banger territory for the last hundred pages or so lads and ladstresses

We’ve gotten to Rosalind Franklin and I’m relieved this book isn’t going the Siddhartha Mukherjee “but she was suuuuuch a bitch didn’t she kind of deserve it a little bit? 🤔” route in talking about her

Hoo brother this is going to be a slow read, but I can already tell it’s going to be worth it