Scientific American Guest Blog: Lenina versus the pneumococcus

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a fascinating read.  Lenina is the inoculation nurse at the hatchling laboratory in central London.  Follow this link to the Scientific American Guest Blog to read about her being placed in a pneumococcal research laboratory.  The science of pneumococcus, antibiotics to treat, growing resistance, vaccination issues is referenced.  Artwork by Artologica is placed within the story.  Come read Short Story Science!

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  1. I enjoyed your story, its interesting to have such a scientific short story, complete with diagrams and everything!

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  2. Thank you...it was really fun to write...and decide how Lenina's artwork should fit into the science.

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  3. Wow this was really neat! I've never read a short story like this before. Congrats on the publication!

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  4. @arspoetica--thank you very much for reading...your comments are much appreciated.

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