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April 4, 2013 05:41 pm PDT
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Read mystery novels to learn chemistry
Deborah Blum — my favorite expert in the fine art of poisoning — writes a fascinating piece about the way mystery writers like Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers approached the chemistry in their stories with an almost mind-blowing accuracy. Not only did they get the symptoms of specific poisons correct, they were actually describe common [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xM5SilrskNI/story01.htm
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