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COPYRIGHT 2008 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
Reading may not be sweat-inducing, but something about the dog days of summer makes one want to go light on mental exercise. July and August reading choices should require only a comfortable beach chair, a generous coating of SPF-30 lotion, and a few lazy hours. Here are some recent offerings whose authors add a little bit of science and natural history to the mix.
Cretaceous Dawn
by L. M. Graziano and M. S. A. Graziano
Leapfrog Press, 2008; $15.95
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Something strange has been happening in the graviton laboratory of Yariko Miyakara, a physicist at the University of Creekbend, South Dakota. Although the chamber that holds her apparatus is sealed and airtight, beetles are randomly turning up inside. Stranger still, when removed...
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