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Facing pneumonia, read medical and life science books.

Shenzhen Translation Bureau is its compilation team, focusing on technology, business, workplace, life and other fields, focusing on introducing new foreign technologies, new perspectives and new trends.

Editor’s note: The recent Wuhan pneumonia has caused everyone to pay special attention to health issues. In addition to various isolation measures, it is more critical to strengthen one’s physical fitness and improve the body’s immunity. And to do that, you need to have a better understanding of life sciences. Vinod Khosla, a top venture capitalist focusing on healthcare, recently listed his list of recommended readings for 2019, which contains many books on health and life sciences. It is recommended that you take a good look, this will benefit you a lifetime. The original article was published on Medium with the title: 2019 Book Recommendations

(most of them are new, and a few were read a few years ago)

1. “Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology” -Each chapter explains a mystery of life, which will make You have different perspectives on the world. If there is no quantum phenomenon like the tunnel effect that we widely use in semiconductors, will there be life? Would cells be able to transport potassium as it is now without quantum? The question at the end is also fascinating: Will the brain be a quantum computer mediated by electromagnetic force, just because classical science at the bottom is too undetectable?

Author: Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili

Score: 10 (strongly recommended); IOne of the few books I’ve read twice!

2. “Lifespan: Why We Age — and Why We Don’t Have To” -This book is eye-opening The open book reveals incredible scientific breakthroughs about aging and how we can slow down or even reverse this process. Why is the possibility of slowing or reversing aging higher than anyone thinks? Should we solve the problem of disease or the problem of aging that will increase the tendency to get sick?

Author: David A. Sinclair and Dr. Matthew D. LaPlante

Score: 10

3. An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives -This book introduces ordinary readers to our human immune system Complex biology. This is indeed a story about the “working mechanism”. Although the immune system is extremely complex, it can be easily damaged by fatigue, stress, toxins, decline, and malnutrition, all of which are characteristic of modern life. But the paradox is that this is a fragile and magical weapon that will mobilize our body with amazing results, leading to the current epidemic of autoimmune diseases.

Author: Matt Richtel

Score: 8

4. “The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success” -This book changed the career and long-term success of our society obsessed with success. Way of goal. This is the application of network science, just as we apply network theory to network medicine to determine whether a drug is effective for a particular patient. It is the most generalization of network theory. As Naseem Taleb puts it: “His project is not only important, but also urgent: use our state-of-the-art arsenal to solve randomness and success.”

Author: Albert Laszlo Bara Brazil (Albert-László Barabási)

Score: 8

5. “The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind” -Market Power (Enterprise) What kind of connection exists with civil society (government)? Raghuram Rajan provides us with a way to rethink and propose reasons to strengthen and return power to local communities as a remedy against growing despair and turmoil. This book provides a solid framework for explaining how things are starting to deteriorate and how society can successfully find ways to return to a safe and stable situation.

Author: Raghuram Rajan

Score: 8

6. “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming” -This book looks into the future and discusses how global warming will affect the transition from global political change to capitalism. Sustainability and everything about human progress. Even if I think it’s exaggerated, you can read it. The situation is frightening, and it is time we should be very, very scared. The message itself is more important than the details, which is very lethal.

Author: David Wallace-Wells

Score: 8

7. “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World” -Although today’s powers fight for equality and justice, Giridharadas believes that their The battle was ultimately to maintain their position at the top of society. This is an important book that contains many very valuable ideas. Although I disagree with many of these conclusions, I do agree with the notion that elite circles, although not always, are often self-centered and selfish.

Author: Anand Giridharadas

Score: 8

8. “The $ 12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art” -An understanding of the economics and the reasons behind the sky-high prices of the modern art market. Marketing strategy book. I always think that art is actually very arrogant, because art is expression (not creation), And this book proves it. Art creation may have a higher meaning, but the art world does not reflect this well. The art world is self-interest, self-confidence, selfishness, social recognition, and other nonsense. After reading this book you will understand why an artwork is priced at $ 400 million, only because it allows buyers to declare that they can spend $ 400 million! Disguise and social identity The role society plays in reality is obvious.

Author: Don Thompson

Score: 8

9. “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” -An important review of today’s most pressing political, technological, social and survival issues entering today’s unknown domain.

Author: Yuval Noah Harari

Score: 8

10. “Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies” -a good book on lightning expansion: a book about how to expand at a fast pace , And, more importantly, when to fast-expand a book with insights. This book also explains why inefficient use of funds is actually important.

Author: Hoffman and Chris Yeh, Bill Gates preface

Score: 7