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This latest collection of cartoons from Sidney Harris, Einstein Atomized
(Copernicus, $14, ISBN 0 387 94665 9), continues his quest to make the
major science issues of the day accessible to nonscientists through humour. Some
are straightforward: a gardener inside a hothouse complains, 鈥淓verywhere you
look there鈥檚 a greenhouse effect. In here, we can鈥檛 grow a damn thing.鈥� Others
are somewhat esoteric: a physicist at a particle accelerator institute says 鈥淲e
have an agreement with the Department of Agriculture to accelerate some grapes,
lemons and hazelnuts.鈥� A few are downright nerdy: 鈥淒r Grommet is funded by a
major Hollywood film studio. He鈥檚 been asked to come up with an antigravity
device and an invisible raygun.鈥� It鈥檚 worth buying the book for the odd gem of
the kind that makes you laugh out loud on the train: 鈥淲hat鈥檚 come over
Heisenberg? He seems to be certain about everything these days.鈥�