The plane is picking up speed on the runway, and then the pilot notices a bunch of boys on bicycles — they are rushing in parallel, desperately trying to outrun the plane! The pilot indignantly shakes his fist at them, and they know for themselves lean on the pedals, reveling in impunity — they notice the called police officers from afar and always manage to escape. One of the young daredevils, Craig Venter, will become a future geneticist, a genome decoder, and an artificial cell creator. His autobiography is a mixture of introspection, popular biology, family saga and adventure novel. The difference from the latter is that everything said causes not only delight, but also trust.
BINOM, Knowledge Lab, 448 p., 2015