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Chemistry

Household cleaner makes blood removal simple!

Common household “oxy” cleaners remove blood almost too well.

Math

Book Review: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Timothy Gowers, ed

Review by Tom Siegfried.

Science & Society

All in a Day’s Work: Careers Using Science by Megan Sullivan

NSTA Press, 2008, 140 p., $15.95.

Climate

Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat— And How to Counter It by Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig

Hill and Wang, 2008, 253 p., $25.

Science & Society

Sound reasoning requires statistical understanding

Health & Medicine

Itch

When it comes to sensory information detected by the body, pain is king, and itch is the court jester.