Plants make excellent metaphors. Seeds can wait years for the right sprouting conditions; saplings strive for light; trees form symbiotic relationships with other organisms and struggle to reproduce.

This program was originally broadcast on April 5, 2016. “Lab Girl”, the powerful new memoir of a female scientist — geobiologist Hope Jahren — on life and love. Hope Jahren is a remarkable scientist ...

Geochemist Hope Jahren writes with such flair that a reviewer is tempted to just move out of the way and quote her. Consider the top of page 64 in her new book, “Lab Girl” (Knopf, 290 pp., $26.95): ...

Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. Hope Jahren's new book will change the way you think about plants — and the way you listen to them. Yes: Listen. Not ...

Geobiologist Hope Jahren's memoir "Lab Girl" will be the next Tosa All-City Read, organizers announced Wednesday. A Minnesota native, Jahren is a professor at the University of Oslo in Norway. Her ...

A variety of programs on campus support the university’s community-wide reading and conversation of Hope Jahren’s acclaimed memoir In her coming-of-age memoir “Lab Girl,” paleobiologist Hope Jahren ...

Roots and leaves. Wood and knots. Flowers and fruit. These six nouns eloquently divide the magnificent parts of Hope Jahren’s memoir, “Lab Girl.” They are science words. They are life and love words.

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“Lab Girl”, the powerful new memoir of a female scientist — geobiologist Hope Jahren — on life and love. Geobiologist Hope Jahren is the author of a new memoir about her life and work, "Lab Girl." ...

No subtitle needed: Lab Girl is a book about a girl and her lab. Or, more precisely, about a geochemist and the laboratories she built in Georgia, Maryland and Hawaii to explore the wonders of plant ...