Theo Baker’s First “F”?

From SanJoseInside.

“Reporting by student journalist Theo Baker, a Stanford University freshman, in the Stanford Daily student newspaper led to the stunning resignation last week by Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne.”

Tessier-Lavigne is slinking back to the Biology Department.

Imagine a scenario where Tessier-Lavigne is scrolling through his Bio 101 class roster and right there near the top is the name of sophomore Theo Baker.

Siddhartha Mukherjee Writes In Bed

I sang his praises here. He won a well-deserved Pulitzer for general nonfiction for Empire of All Maladies. And he deserves a Nobel Prize for science writing for helping a knucklehead like me (mostly) understand cellular biology.

I’m just settling in with The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human.

Here’s the backstory to the book and his writing process.