A sequence of scientific sound bites, each originally a one-minute talk on
Indiana University’s radio station, have been gathered into a fun book by Don
Glass. The talk alluded to in the title, How Can You Tell If a Spider is Dead?
(Indiana University Press, £20.95 hbk, £10.99 pbk, ISBN 0 253 21020
8) indicates the style, with entertainment and science given equal billing.
Science as P. T. Barnum would have presented it.
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