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The Disappearing Spoon (ect.) - Sam Kean

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The Disappearing Spoon (ect.) - Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements - Sam Kean
Publisher: Tantor Media; Unabridged,MP3 - Unabridged CD edition (August 24, 2010) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 1400169526; 1400119529; 1400149525 | 555.61 MB
Narrator: Sean Runnette | Mp3/VBR~80 kbps | 7% Recovery

The infectious tales and astounding details in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the frequently mad scientists who discovered them.

About the Author
Sam Kean spent years collecting mercury from broken thermometers as a kid, and now he is a writer in Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, Air & Space/Smithsonian, and New Scientist. In 2009 he was a runner-up for the National Association of Science Writers' Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for best science writer under the age of thirty. He currently writes for Science and is a 2009-2010 Middlebury Environmental Journalism fellow.