Lab Girl Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly clean look at vegetation that will forever modification how you see the natural world

Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and ground. Her first publication is a revelatory treatise on plant life-but additionally it is so much more.

Laboratory Girl is a publication about function, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things about Lab Girl come together. It is told through Jahren’s exceptional tales: about her child years in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who urged hours of perform in his classroom’s labs; about how exactly she discovered a sanctuary in research, and learned to execute lab work performed “with both heart and the hands”; and about the unavoidable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries, of medical work.

Yet in the core of the book may be the story of a relationship Jahren forged with a brilliant, wounded man named Bill, who all becomes her laboratory partner and closest friend. Their sometimes rogue journeys in science take them through the Midwest over the United States and again, on the Atlantic towards the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their house.

Jahren’s probing take a look at plant life, her astonishing tenacity of spirit, and her severe insights on character enliven every web page of this outstanding book. Lab Woman opens your eyes to the stunning, sophisticated systems within every leaf, blade of lawn, and blossom petal. Here’s an eloquent demo of what can occur when you discover the stamina, interest, and sense of sacrifice needed to make a life out of everything you really love, as you discover along the way the individual you were designed to be.

Music for the Audio Edition:

Composed by Katelyn Sweeney Ching

Margaret Kocher, Cellist

Katelyn Sweeney Ching, Pianist

Mark Robinson, Sound Engineer