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I love Ed Yong, I love microbes, I love Ed Yong talking about microbes.
This is a fantastic primer into how microbes interact with what we typically think of as the natural world. Ed's writing is, as always, beautifully accessible while painting nuanced pictures of what we currently do and don't know. I wish I'd read this book before starting my PhD, because it would have provided me with such a stronger foundation into gut microbiota, vertical and horizontal transmission of microbes, the importance of metabolic capacity of the microbiome (i.e. Who's there vs what are they doing) and probably saved me many headaches. Reading it post PhD while recovering from the flu, I got to experience so much joy at the sheer possibilities and beauty of science and learn about fascinating quirks of the natural world.
Recommended highly if you want to know more about microbes, want to marvel at the natural world, and love science.
More thoughts here: https://youtu.be/Wj9tTFqo-BM
This is a fantastic primer into how microbes interact with what we typically think of as the natural world. Ed's writing is, as always, beautifully accessible while painting nuanced pictures of what we currently do and don't know. I wish I'd read this book before starting my PhD, because it would have provided me with such a stronger foundation into gut microbiota, vertical and horizontal transmission of microbes, the importance of metabolic capacity of the microbiome (i.e. Who's there vs what are they doing) and probably saved me many headaches. Reading it post PhD while recovering from the flu, I got to experience so much joy at the sheer possibilities and beauty of science and learn about fascinating quirks of the natural world.
Recommended highly if you want to know more about microbes, want to marvel at the natural world, and love science.
More thoughts here: https://youtu.be/Wj9tTFqo-BM