Booms and stinks are the fun parts of chemistry. Understanding the principles behind them rather less so, and many a potential chemist abandons ship as their college course sails into the quagmire of ...
The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry, by Larry Gonick and Craig Criddle, HarperCollins, 2005, 249 pages, $16.95 (ISBN 0-06-093677-0) The inherent conflict of terminology in the title "The Cartoon Guide to ...
American film critic Pauline Kael wrote a book of movie reviews called "I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings 1954-1965." A number of scientists and engineers may actually find "it" at the movies.