When you have billions in common, you have a lot in common. My latest on the Pipeline.
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee. The book tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. Told in six parts, it is panoramic but is also intimate, laced with Mukherjee’s own experience as a researcher, doctor and prolific reader.
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource – oil, the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded it for decades and that continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy, and transform the destiny of men and nations.