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Salon.com
November 12, 2002
Peter Kurth |
"Out of the Flames" by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone The scholar who enraged Calvin and inspired the Unitarians was gruesomely executed for writing a book.   |
Science News
November 9, 2002 |
TilmeLine: November 5, 1932 Field Museum visitors see bit of Abyssinia... How to have a good time is adolescents' chief worry... Better sauerkraut from washed cabbages... |
Reason
November 2002
Jesse Walker |
The Secret History of Television Two books about Philo Farnsworth have been published this year: Evan Schwartz's The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television and Daniel Stashower's The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television. |
Science News
November 2, 2002 |
TimeLine: October 29, 1932 The owl and the pussycat rivals at mouse-catching... Surgeon suggests golden rule to combat nervous troubles... Bees "gang up" on insect murderer |
Salon.com
October 29, 2002
Laura Miller |
Early American horror show The Salem Witch Trials remain a hideous -- yet disturbingly familiar -- mystery. |
Salon.com
October 28, 2002
Laura Miller |
Primeval terror (since 1929) You think Halloween has pagan roots? Guess again. Two new histories of America's second favorite holiday reveal the truth. |
Science News
October 26, 2002 |
TimeLine: October 22, 1932 Sun, moon and stars in the movies... Different breathing may cause scientists' diverging views... Superatomic bullets smash lithium atoms for Americans... etc. |
Science News
October 19, 2002 |
TimeLine: October 15, 1932 The saber-tooth strikes... Dangers of dust in industry described at safety congress... Scientist directs huge magnet in attack to smash atom... |
Salon.com
October 15, 2002
Allen Barra |
"Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War" by T.J. Stiles The latest and best-ever biography of Jesse James tears down the myth to reveal not a latter-day Robin Hood, but a greedy, press-savvy bandit. |
Science News
October 12, 2002 |
From the October 8, 1932, issue Autumn Brings Nobility Even to Cornfield Weeds... Cosmic Rays May be Emitted When Magnetic Poles Combine... Milk Pasteurized by Conducting Electricity... |
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