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Just finisihed this & it's brilliant: Katalin Kariko's story of her life. She was convinced that mRNA therapies could work decades ago & did the foundation work, all while being ignored, never promoted & struggling for jobs.
Today, millions are vaccinated with mRNA vaccines & she has a Nobel prize.
It's a great story, and leaves a lot for the scientific system to think about. Highly recommended.
Oh no, what a legend!
https://social.bbc/@BBCRadio4/111743684594891434
BBCRadio4@social.bbc - The extraordinary Annie Nightingale, Radio 1's first female DJ and a supporter of new music and young artists for the whole of her decades-long career, has died, aged 83.
Her 2020 episode of Desert Island Discs, with Lauren Laverne, celebrates the 50th anniversary of her first appearance on Radio 1.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l1wk
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Growing up #gay in an all-boys Catholic school in 70s Australia, then straight into the horrific tragedy of the #AIDS epidemic. Lots of explicit sex. Jesuit priests surprisingly supportive. Lost my attention part way through - got a bit then-this-happened. Thankful we provided a supportive medical system for AIDS victims.
Reading time 9 days, 32 pages/day
Autobiography of a woman who was a committed & diligent National Socialist (#Nazi), of her experience in youth work & propaganda, and her journey coming to terms with the truth of what she participated in. Description of the clinical dispossession of the Poles is disturbing (and new to me), as is the readiness with which everyday mediocre people were led into misguided beliefs, alternative facts & constrained thinking, to do prosaic work with horrifyingly evil outcomes.
Reading time 11 days, 26 pages/day
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