Harold Baum
Autor de Biochemists' Songbook
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- Miembros
- 22
- Popularidad
- #553,378
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- 3.5
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- ISBNs
- 5
Among the included songs are the following: "Waltz Round the Cycle" (to the tune of Waltzing Matilda); "The Battle Hymn of the Aerobes" (to Battle Hymn of the Republic); "Protein Biosynthesis" (to My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean); "Photosynthesis" (to Auld Lang Syne) and others to tunes even less likely to be familiar to today's readers, at least outside of the England: "The Chemiosmotic Theory"; "Blood Sugar"; "The Glyoxylate Cycle"; and "We're Here Because Urea."
As an example, consider "Photosynthesis" (Auld Lang Syne):
When sunlight bathes the chloroplast, and photons are absorbed...
The energy's transduced so fast that food is quickly stored.
As another, there's "The Battle Hymn of the Aerobes":
Mine eyes have seen the glory of respiratory chains
In every mitochondrion, intrinsic to membranes...
Then there's beta- oxidation (to There's a Tavern in the Town):
There is a pathway in the cell (in the cell)
That metabolises awfully well (awfully well).. .
The songs are interspersed with musical scores (for those uncertain of the tunes), and in a feature ne'er before found in a songbook, with complex, line drawings of metabolic pathways.
This small book is uniquely amusing as well as audacious. Not one in 1000 will appreciate or understand it, but for those few members of its specialized audience, it's a book without compare. Perhaps that's a good thing.… (más)