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Aromatase is also interesting for the chemist as it is so far the only known enzyme that can turn an aliphatic ring (such as cyclohexene) into an aromatic one (such as benzene), hence the name.

Recently I've managed to figure out what it's about (the clue is in the spare oxygen atom left over after the reaction they all share - with that they can do all kinds of chemistry) and written a couple of pieces about this field, pegged to the crystal structure of aromatase, an enzyme that plays a key role in a large number of breast tumours, and is thus a prime target for cancer therapy. Man species have hundreds of them, doing apparently unrelated things, so I never managed to remember anything about these proteins because whenever I came across a bit of information, it didn't seem to fit with the previous one. There is a huge family of enzymes known as the Cytochrome P450 family, which I always used to find very confusing. Suffice it to say that a 'medicine for kids' title is the only thing that is coming anywhere near science. The non-fiction side of the list (another 20 titles including one by the pope) is less easy to categorise but just as depressing. So if people come along and say Rowling did great work for public literacy, I have to object and point out that pottermania may also have stopped people from reading more intelligent books and dealing with the real world. A phenomenon like the noughties fantasy tsunami pulls along people from all sides, including those who might otherwise have spent their time reading more intelligent books. What I am worried about is the other side of the spectrum. But I tend to think if they only read fantasy and nothing else, they might as well read nothing, it wouldn't make much difference.

There is the school of thinking that says that many of those millions reading Harry Potter wouldn't have read any book otherwise. Two German originals which I found mildly interesting (Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the world and Charlotte Roche's Wetlands) made 7 and 4, respectively. Dan Brown in 5 and 15, Stephenie Meyer in 8, 9, and 20, and Germany's very own fantasy kidult fiction writer Cornelia Funke (Inkheart, etc.) in places 6, 11, 19 (which already counts as good news, I guess).

In the fiction list we have Harry Potter in positions 1, 2, 3, 14, 16, and 18. I guess it wasn't surprising but I still get slightly depressed looking at Germany's top 20 bestsellers of the decade, published in the current issue of Der Spiegel.

Daniel kehlmann measuring the world pdf map