title: Science on the Far Horizon
author: G. Edgar Folk
description: The story of a life in science guided by a passion for nature. Physiologist G. Edgar Folk recounts explorations of near and far horizonsall part of his quest to combine an outdoor life with research. But it was not all exotic locales: the ever-present need to earn money to pay tuition exposed Folk to interesting people and experiences that, surprisingly, may have saved his life during WW II. A researcher at the legendary Harvard Fatigue Laboratory during that war, he also knew and worked alongside some of physiologys greats, including Donald Griffin, Bruce Dill, John Welsh, Larry Irving, and Harwood Belding.
zlib_text: Edges of Science
  Thom Powell
  Published by Willamette City Press, LLC
  
   
  Copyright © 2015 by Thom Powell
  Published by Willamette City Press, LLC.
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  Artwork by Alicia Bateman
  Copy Editing by Molly Hart Lebherz and Jack Powell
  Issued also in print format.  ISBN 978-0-69245-807-5
  
   
   
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  Table of Contents
  Introduction:  The Big Tent
  Chapter One:  The Coconut Telegraph
  Chapter Two:  Hillbilly Hollow
  Chapter Three:  Bigfoot Magnets
  Chapter Four:  London Calling 
  Chapter Five:  The Science Fair
  Chapter Six:  The Quicksilver Curtain
  Chapter Seven:  The Goblin Univ