--- title: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren: Watch a Video Trailer for the Book description: "People are like plants, they grow toward the light" canonical: https://time.com/4401817/lab-girl-hope-jahren-video/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-13T15:37:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:10:51.795Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Watch Hope Jahren Explain the Consequential Beauty of Nature og:description: 'People are like plants, they grow toward the light' og:url: https://time.com/4401817/lab-girl-hope-jahren-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50f315460c898988/69889b77cd1bba5c0b7016f9/lab-girl.png?branch=production&width=1132&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1132 og:image:height: 637 og:image:alt: lab girl og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Hope Jahren Explain the Consequential Beauty of Nature twitter:description: 'People are like plants, they grow toward the light' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50f315460c898988/69889b77cd1bba5c0b7016f9/lab-girl.png?branch=production&width=1132&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Hope Jahren Explain the Consequential Beauty of Nature > Sponsored content. 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But as seriously as Jahren takes the ills of the STEM community—she says one of her most important duties as a professor is to guide former students through abusive work situations—her memoir [_Lab Girl_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101874937?tag=timecom-20) is just as serious about the wonders of a life in science. Since the book came out in April, it’s been [warmly received](http://www.npr.org/2016/04/22/475228342/lab-girl-an-homage-to-the-wonders-of-all-things-green) by [critics and readers](http://time.com/4276980/hope-jahren-lab-girl-interview/) alike, and spent several weeks on the _Times_ best seller list. Jahren was even named to the [TIME 100](http://time.com/4301342/hope-jahren-2016-time-100/) as “science’s great communicator.” “People are like plants,” Jahren says in a new trailer for the book. “They grow toward the light.” And with its roots in rocky but rich soil, _Lab Girl_, too, grows toward the light. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4401817/lab-girl-hope-jahren-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4401817/lab-girl-hope-jahren-video/"},"headline":"Watch Hope Jahren Explain the Consequential Beauty of Nature","datePublished":"2016-07-13T15:37:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:10:51.795Z","description":"'People are like plants, they grow toward the light'","url":"https://time.com/4401817/lab-girl-hope-jahren-video/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50f315460c898988/69889b77cd1bba5c0b7016f9/lab-girl.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50f315460c898988/69889b77cd1bba5c0b7016f9/lab-girl.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"lab girl","caption":"","creditText":"Knopf","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4401817/lab-girl-hope-jahren-video/","name":"Watch Hope Jahren Explain the Consequential Beauty of Nature"}}]}] ```