Some tourists in today’s Venice ride a boat to Torcello. This island was settled in the fifth and sixth centuries by the Altinians, when they…
A scientist and a writer
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A scientist and a writer
Some tourists in today’s Venice ride a boat to Torcello. This island was settled in the fifth and sixth centuries by the Altinians, when they…
Our present knowledge divides living beings into three categories, the prokaryotes (bacteria whose cells have no nuclei), the eukaryotes (bacteria and all higher organisms whose…
The Dutch proverb “hij komt met het zout als het ei op is” finds its French equivalent in the proverb of the carabinieri (Italian military…
Don’t do it, unless … I start with the conclusion, so that my stand be clear from the outset. To volunteer your expertise into giving…
You have just been hired by a company for your expert advice. Give answers to the questions which are put to you. You won’t be…
To review a paper for a journal, or a research proposal for an agency, are adult undertakings. Yet, most of us act irresponsibly. Too often,…
Because it is so widespread, one has to dispel first a naive misconception. According to that view, the only talent needed for communicating science to…
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