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AN OCEAN OF AIR: WHY THE WIND BLOWS AND OTHER MYSTERIES OF THE ATMOSPHERE, by Gabrielle Walker, Harcourt, 272 pages, $25
The author, a holder of a doctoral degree in chemistry, is a prolific science writer and Princeton professor. In this book, Gabrielle Walker asserts that we don't actually live on the surface of a planet, but rather at the bottom of an ocean of air -- which keeps us warm, creates our weather, transforms into solid food and gives us the ability to hear.See the full content of this document
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'Air' a Pop History of Science
Among other things, Walker notes that "the air filling Carnegie Hall weighs 70,000 pounds." It was Galileo, in the 1630s, who fou...
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