Bartusiak, a visiting professor of writing at MIT Graduate Science Writing Program, describes how on Jan. 1, 1925, Edwin Hubble announced findings that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed and filled with myriad galaxies like our own. It was a realization, Bartusiak says, that reshaped how humans understood their place in the cosmos.

Blech, a the U.S.-based correspondent for Der Spiegel, notes that 60 percent of the world's population is described as sedentary and treatment for sedentary citizens in the United States alone costs $75 billion dollars a year. He builds the case for exercise with examples ranging from President Eisenhower's heart treatment to studies conducted by NASA, dismantling old preconceptions about bed rest along the way.

For more than 30 years, The Skeptical Inquirer has been the leading voice for reliable scientific examination of the paranormal and other questionable claims popularized by the media and mass culture. In this new collection of outstanding recent articles, Editor Kendrick Frazier has selected topics of current interest.

These two NASW members have, for more than a decade, trawled the headlines to bring a deeper understand of everyday events and phenomena to the public. Their whyfiles.org is reputedly the number one science destination on the web. Their new book is formatted like a newspaper and is divided into sections including: World News, Metro, Business Life, Sports, Arts and Leisure, Travel, Style, Opinion Page, and more. The Why Files originated 13 years ago with an off-the-cuff remark by a NSF grant officer who wanted to know how people learn about science on the web, a medium then in its infancy.