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Why moths hate Thomas Edison and other urgent inquiries into the odd nature of nature : the best of Outside magazine's "The wild file" / edited by Hampton Sides ; illustrations by Jason Schneider.

New York : Norton, ©2001.

217 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Addresses questions regarding the strange, bizarre, trivial, and odd facets of nature, animals, geological features, outer space, and humans.

Natural history -- Miscellanea.

Nature -- Miscellanea.

Trivia and miscellanea.

Sides, Hampton.

Outside (Chicago, Ill.)

Faunal knowledge : farces of nature from the animal kingdom -- That's fowl! : researches on the wing -- Biodivertissement : kinks and links in the great chain of life -- Homo imperfectus : deficits and design flaws of human physiology -- Outlore : dubious figures and indubitable facts of natural history -- High camp : sage counsel for backroad and backcountry -- Time to chill : cold realities from the dead of winter -- Terra informa : cartographic crannies and continental quirks -- Earthistentialism : a few world-class enigmas -- H2-oh! : fluid thoughts on the nature of water -- Up on the roof : high concepts about mountains -- Nature's ticked! : shocking truths from the meteorological vault -- Did I just see that? : freaky phenomena in the skies -- Moonstruck : lunar reflections -- Billions and billions : probing deep space -- Scales and tails : dispatches from reptilia, amphibia -- Piscine pondering : submerged facts about fish -- Green genes : good dirt from the plant world.

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