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The author offers a collection of essays that addresses questions ranging from why scientists do their most original work in their youth, and how progress has handicapped society to the physiology of a smile to the mysteries of the night sky
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Lightman, a physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and a teacher at Harvard, has a flair for explaining the issues and difficult problems of modern astrophyics today. PW was particularly pleased by his "personal sidelights."
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