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The Science of How Alive You Really Are: Alan Turing, Trees, and the Wonder of Life

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Alan Turing ( June 23, 1912June 7, 1954 ) lost the love of his life, Christopher , to a bacterium contracted from cow’s milk.

Alan Turing was inspired by Edwin Tinney Brewster's Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know, published the year he was born.

The book's most captivating chapter, titled “How Much of Us Is Alive ,” explores the science, the staggering and counterintuitive reality of aliveness.

The more a creature’s life is worth, the less of it is alive, says Brewster .

We are, then, built of living bricks set in dead mortar, he says.

The triumph of history is tracing the roots — ancient and alive — of our present condition in the world.