It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strangeamps, and today, what is thinking like a scientist?

And can anyone do it?

My very earliest memories are of being in my father's laboratory.

Biologist Hope Jaron.

He taught at a community college, and in the the evenings he would get things ready for the next day.

He would maintain the equipment and set up the demonstrations and I would go with him, my brothers and I and we would help.

I just loved the place. I love and we would help.

I just love the place. I love the way it smelled. I love the bright lights and all the different blinking objects. And from very early on, I thought, when I grow up, I'm going to have a lab,

and it's going to have one of those and two of those,

and I'm going to do experiments with my friends.

And I imagined that for myself before I even knew what having a job was.

Hope Sharon grew up, and she did get that lab of her own more than one. She's had geobiology labs in Georgia, Maryland, Hawaii, and now Oslo. And she thinks there should be more people like her.

I think there's a lot of folks that haven't considered science that would be good at it and would like it.

The problem is, Hope says, most of us don't actually have a chance to see inside science labs.

We don't know what scientists do all day, and we don't know how they think.

So she wrote a book to try to explain.

It's called Lab Girl.

It won the National Book Critics Circle Award,

and it begins with her own first encounters in her dad's lab.

Well, he had the physics demonstrations.

I remember those really well, you know, the balls that roll down a slope

and slopes of different shape and magnets, you know turning magnets in an electrical field

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