One of the ca. 800 species of acacias, this tree is not indigenous to Senegal. For economic reasons, it was planted on the banks of…
A scientist and a writer
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Editorial Reviews
Review
New Scientist :
“Did you know there are a billion citrus trees under cultivation, or that grapefruit juice may potentiate the effects of Viagra? Citrus mines over two millennia of history to explore the spread of these fruits out of Asia, their commercialisation in the United States, and [their] enduring symbolism the world over.”—New Scientist
Sunday Times (UK) :
“Stimulating. . . . Laszlo, a retired French chemist, takes us on a journey from the orangeries of Versailles, via the limes of the Royal Navy to the citriculture of modern Florida. It was only in the 1920s, he tells us, that orange juice became ‘an integral part of the American breakfast’, after the great flu epidemic of 1918-19. Laszlo shows that the citrus fruit ‘is a treasure trove of chemicals that are highly useful to humankind’—which also happens to taste wonderful.”—Sunday Times (UK)
Préface Au tout début de ma carrière universitaire — j’avais 23 ans et j’étais assistanten biochimie —, je m’intéressais déjà aux protéines. L’une des manipulations…
Communicating Science an appreciation culled from the Web (www.scienceblog.com) Communicating Science to Broader Audiences Wed, 2007-01-10 18:06 — dnlee5I recently attended a workshop that touched…
Toronto Globe and Mail Saturday, January 26, 2002
Salt’s savoury story
Reviewed By Zsuzsi Gartner
Salt: A World History
By Mark Kurlansky
Knopf Canada, 496 pages, $34.95
Salt: Grain of Life
By Pierre Laszlo
Translated by Mary Beth Mader
Columbia University Press,
194 pages, $35.50
Somewhere high above New York’s Rockefeller Plaza in an AOL
Time Warner boardroom, the movie of the century (never mind that
the century is still a toddler and not yet toilet-trained) is being
discussed. Someone in a nubbly prosciutto-toned linen Nehru jacket
who just flew in from L.A. is talking epic, is talking spin-offs, is
talking tie-ins, is talking action figures, is talking point-of-purchase,
is talking about the ching-ching-ching of a hundred thousand cash registers singing. “Okay, so we have
Sinbad meets The Last Emperor meets The Ten Commandments meets Gladiator meets The Scarlet
Pimpernel meets Gone With the Wind meets Gandhi meets Giant meets The China Syndrome and Erin
Brockovitch with heavy dashes of Babette’s Feast and Emeril Live!”
The author of the property in question, sitting hitherto unnoticed on a
chair by the window, slides to the floor. “Get the smelling salts!”
someone yells—because they once heard this in a movie and
because, well, some salt in the proceedings at this juncture seems
appropriate.
Venice Some tourists in today’s Venice ride a boat to Torcello. This island was settledin the fifth and sixth centuries by the Altinians, when they…
Extreme Halophiles Our present knowledge divides living beings into three categories, theprokaryotes (bacteria whose cells have no nuclei), the eukaryotes (bacteria and allhigher organisms whose…
Proverb of the tardy salt The Dutch proverb “hij komt met het zout als het ei op is” finds its Frenchequivalent in the proverb of…
Terre Thaumaturge Les urgences d’un CHU. L’interne de garde vous examine, et vous pose laquestion: “de quand date votre dernier rappel contre le tétanos?”. La…
L’odeur de terre “Il sentait bon le sable chaud, mon légionnaire!” Cette rengaine familièred’Édith Piaf nous interpelle aussi: elle intrigue un peu, autant qu’elle…