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Meaning
The speaker is describing a childhood spent around science and laboratory work. It suggests an early familiarity with experiments, equipment, and a family environment shaped by research. The line also implies that this setting helped define the speaker’s relationship to science.
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Originally said in English.
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About Hope Jahren
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Books by Hope Jahren
Lab Girl
2017
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2021