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What's foreign is reading the book and afterwards visiting the places mentioned. They talk in it about when the Whitehead institute was constructed at MIT. I got to visit yesterday and it's a dwarf compared to the following institute they put up right next door. Weird, too, seeing the river next to the campus, knowing that a researcher took their life walking across the ice because they had been screwed one too many times by academia... If you want a pitch, it's a book on the process of cancer research written by an anthropologist, an outsider (but accurate) perspective on how lab scientists navigate the waters of funding, politics, and actual scientific problems and the many characters that pop up along the way.