Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, March 12, 1992, Page 8, Image 8

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Science for inquiring minds
1,001 Things Everyone
Should Know About
Science
by
James Trefil
Doubteday . 1992
305 pages
Hardcover price: 120
★ ★★
Why don't hurricanes i’ht
cm c nr in Kansas7 How doers one
rotten apple spoil the whole
laurel? When' ciid the earth
come from, or the sun7
To some, these questions are
nerciy trivia Hut for anyone in
terested in things sc lentific . or
just rurtous. I.(KU /Vimgs l \
ervcine Shouhl kiwis Ahttul
.Science is a good [dace to dis
cover the secrets of the natural
vs orld
At a tune when sc ientific lit
crnt v or any kind of literal y
swrns to in- dropping in ilits
i ountry it's nitc !o have a txrok
like this to remind us of what
we should know 1 ,IH)1 ?7ij/)gs
written by physios professor
and science writer James Trofil
does so simply and off is* lively
oovering topics such as earth
st ience, astronomy and ( lassi
(ill physios The "things" are
numlrerod and range in length
from one sentence to two or
three paragraphs
1 refil occasionally breaks in
w ith a pop quiz question or ins
own theory on whatever is be
mg dismissed
At first glume, the hook up
pears to Ire another Ni(ilt') s Hr
lirve ll or Not clone To he hon
es|, there are a few quirky little
fat Is like the fat I that a Sjiet it s
td fern is the organism w itii the
most chromosome pairs (with
fetO) Bui the Ixrnk does have
important information and
could conceivably ire used its a
study guide for any basic st t
ent e course
The hook breaks down the
main harrier between the gener
ill public and science its com
piex11v. One can't understand
the significance of a super t ol
litier without grasping the con
cept of elementary particles
and atomic nm '• , And with
cvi rv chapter. TrcTil starts 'it
square one
At the beginning of the < hap
ter on molet ular biology, for
example. we are told that .ill
molecules in living systems are
mu do from six chemical ete
merits Treftl explains what
they are and goes on from
there Two pages later, the
reader is learning about amino
acids and enzymes at an easy
pare written in simple linglish
Another of the hook s plusses
is the way it explains the s< irn
tiTii background of the most or
dinary things In the physical
science chapter, for example,
we learn about the si ientific
[irim iples behind the distilla
tion of whiskey, or the reason
light switches are made with
plastic
Ini Identiilly, the book says
hurricanes happen only over
the South Atlanln . where the
storms feed " off the w arm wa
ters Rotting apples give off eth
anol. whit h speeds up the rip
ening of adjacent apples And
the sun and earth are believed
to have condensed from art an
i lent ( loud of gas and dust
I he things you learn
By Christopher Blair
ABC anchor flirtatious, wife says
AKUNCI'ON V.i (Al’l ABC News am hnr
man Peter Ironings may !*■ iihiI no s< rrrn, hut
he's not off, hr says of himself, an insight hm krd
up hy Ins wilr ami friends
Mr srrs himself as ' yrry passm.it- soinrtimrs
mrrturl.il. always engaged
Mr s also a flirt, says wile kali Marlon
"Peter is very naturally flirtatious, hut. .is any
laxly witli any hrams rrali/rs after five minutes,
it's an exert ise in having fun." Marlon told / S \
Wri'ki'nd lor a profile to fir puhhslied Mari h
11 1 ci "And he loves to tell women that hr hods
them attractive What harm does that do'
"I find beauty irresistible, whether it s a woman
or a juts e of mush: or a [minting. Jennings said
"I am very, yrry visual, and I i an t not resjiond
Marlon said Jennings' sentimental side t Topped
up when he tallied home from Baghdad during
Thanksgiving dinner in Mint) ' Wc sang We
(lather Together for him, and y\r could hear him
t rying Me yv.is somewhere on a Baghdad street,
and then* we were shouting into this silly telt
11 hone
Mr s also tough, says ABC eorres|>ondrn! Barrie
Dunsroorc. .1 friend of to years
"Peter lends In stearnroll people, .md Ill' s more
interested In the ones lie doesn I sle.imroll Ih.m
the ones lie does U hill goes vs ilh IVters great en
ergy nnd curiosity IS ,1 rel.iliveU shorl attention
spun I) Kati weren't the kind of person she is, Pe
ter vs mild have lost interest a long time ago
Sutherland welcomes sun
kh A R NKY, \eh {AI *) former Lebanese hos
lage Thomas Sutherland s.ivs the sun was the last
thing he saw before he was kidnapped and it's a
sight he now welcomes eiii h dav vs ilh new appre
i iation
Sutherland said he remembers glam ing at the
sun just before a bag was pulled over Ins head
June O, 1 this
"That was the last I saw of the sun for six
years," said Sutherland, who was released last
November
Sutherland, tit), was dean of the American Uni
versitv of Beirut when he was kidnapped
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