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Hiroshima :: Japan | 8 months ago
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Oct 02 2012 I intended to read Sam Kean's new book The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by our Genetic Code just for fun. I was expecting a miscellany of trivia loosely gathered around the theme of DNA.
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The secrets locked inside your genes - author Sam Kean on Well Read
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 9 months ago
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Kean's new book is "The Violinist's Thumb and Other Lost Tales of Love, War and Genius." It's a tour de force of science reporting, highlighting recent research on how much our genetic code determines our destiny. The title comes from the thumbs of
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DNA secrets and nuclear blasts
Hiroshima :: Japan | 9 months ago
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On Aug. 6, 1945, a man named Tsutomu Yamaguchi was running late to his job at the Mitsubishi headquarters in Hiroshima. When the bomb hit, he was far enough away to survive the blast, but not far enough to escape immediate radiation burns.
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The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean – review | Tim Raford
Stockholm :: Sweden | over 1 year ago
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Firing it generated so much heat, the steel of its barrel had to be reinforced with molybdenum. Photograph: Corbis At the heart of Sam Kean's book is a refreshing idea: to tell the story of the periodic table almost entirely in terms of material
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Periodic Tales, By Hugh Aldersey-WilliamsThe Disappearing Spoon, By Sam Kean
Shanghai :: China | over 2 years ago
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The Periodic Table, which graphically illustrates their relationships, has a certain cachet and hangs on many walls; Tom Lehrer wrote a song, "The Elements", which demonstrates that the names scan well...Dr Johnson sternly put his finger on the
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The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean; Periodic Tales by Hugh Aldersey-Williams — review
Hamburg :: Germany | over 2 years ago
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Gold is the incorruptible' element; it does not bond with others. Photograph: Gallery Collection/Corbis After the rise of Adolf Hitler, two of Germany's leading liberal scientists, Max von Laue and James Franck, sent their Nobel medals to the great
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Review | 'The Disappearing Spoon': How to explain the allure of mercury and helium
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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How to explain the allure of mercury and helium Science journalist deftly brings to life the periodic table of elements. Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements.
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"The Disappearing Spoon": The fascinating history of the periodic table
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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The Disappearing Spoon" by Sam Kean This article appears courtesy of the Barnes & Noble Review . When I was a child, my dentist once gave me a small sample of mercury to take home in a tiny jar. (It helps when your dentist is also your cousin.) I
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