Join My Brain Food
A batch of the best highlights from what Louis's read, .
Photosynthesis is energized by the absorption of light by pigments in the thylakoid membranes inside bacterial and plant chloroplasts (the cellular organelles that give plants their green color). The energy efficiency of the conversion of simple inorganic inputs into new phytomass is surprisingly low. Introductory textbooks often outline the entire process in a simple equation in which the reaction of six molecules of CO2 and six molecules of water produces one molecule of glucose and six molecules of oxygen: 6CO2 + 6H2O = C6H12O6 + 6O2. The reality is vastly more complex. The key sequential steps were revealed for the first time in 1948 by Melvin Calvin (1911–1997) and his co-workers (Calvin received the 1961 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for this discovery). Most importantly, the process entails not only carbon fixation and oxygen evolution, but is also the complex exchange of oxygen and CO2 in two, closely related, cycles (the other being photorespiration).
The more she got to know Paul, the more she saw him as a man with extraordinary powers of concentration and strength of will, and realized that his attitude to women (herself included) was part of something crucial to his nature.
Painfully Rich
John Pearson
Give time and money. And give it freely. But before giving it to another, give it to yourself. Spend lavishly, with your time and your money, on perfecting Yourself. Spend lavishly, with your time and money, on conquering Your mind. So that you may become a light to your loved ones, and the world
Direct Truth - Uncompromising, Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life
Kapil Gupta
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise