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Right off the bat, Sidney Harris makes it clear that he's not a scientist. He's a cartoonist who grew up in Brooklyn and drew for Playboy, but somehow he still knows about neutrinos and the big bang. "I get the gist of it, " says Harris. "Neutrinos come from outer space. They go through everything, there's a billion of them going through my hand right now... maybe?" He's drawn over 35, 000 cartoons during his career for publications including ...

Hans Geiger, counting.A string-theory quartet.Cleaning the clean room.A physics haiku in Chinese."Damn Particles", 145 cartoons about physics, is the second book in a limited series of cartoon collections on the individual sciences by S. Harris ("Eureka! Details to Follow", the chemistry collection, was the first) The cartoons of S. Harris have appeared in periodicals for many years and he has had more than twenty collections of his cartoons p...

Excerpt from Richard Vandermarck: A NovelO for one spot of living green, One little spot where leaves can grow, -To love unblamed, to walk unseen, To dream above, to sleep below!There are in this loud stunning tide, Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abideOf th' everlasting chime, And to wise hearts this certain hope is given, "No mist that man may raise, shall hide the eye of Heaven."I never knew exactly how the invitation came, ...

If you're overwhelmed by the mess we call our environment, then stretch out under a tree (remember them?) with these cartoons and see if a good laugh won't sweep the cobwebs (and asbestos) from your troubled mind and help renew your commitment to making our earth a better place.

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Sidney Harris, acclaimed Dean of Scientific Humor, presents his most recent collection of cartoons. No scientific or technical topic is safe from the scope of his humor. Harriss cartoons have appeared in American Scientist, Playboy, The New Yorker, Discover, and Science, among many other popular magazines. Previous collections include Einstein Simplified, "You Want Proof? Ill Give You Proof, " and From Personal Ads to Cloning Labs. "The humor ...

Excerpt from Richard Vandermarck: A Novel O for one spot of living green, One little spot where leaves can grow, - To love unblamed, to walk unseen, To dream above, to sleep below! There are in this loud stunning tide, Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of th' everlasting chime, And to wise hearts this certain hope is given, "No mist that man may raise, shall hide the eye of Heaven." I never knew exactly how the in...

Nature and Love, David Sidney Harris' first published book, was written between 1998 and 2000. Nature and Love is both poetic and autobiographical, and was seen as a powerful tool of self-expression, catharsis, and a way for Harris to uniquely comment upon and unravel his individual perception of the world. The poems within speak of love, nature, family, and (psychiatric) healing. His healing poems, "The Pink Room" and "The Legacy of Persecuti...

An experienced American diplomat goes up against a passionate young female revolutionary to determine who will govern Peru, the newly elected government of Fernando Belaunde or the communist Shining Path. Set in Peru in 1978-1982, when the Shining Path initiated their bloody uprising, this historical novel traces the rise of Edith Lagos to become the most admired leader of the leftist movement, and the efforts of Bruce Berkman to neutralize or...

Sidney Harris is America's foremost science cartoonist. He has been praised by luminaries such as Linus Pauling and Isaac Asimov, as well as countless others throughout the world, for his ability to find humor in what is traditionally regarded as a somewhat dry subject. Harris does for science what Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) does for business: his unique perspective illustrates the scientific and technological environments in such a ...

Dragged by force from his village in the Bolivian highlands, Carlos Obregon is thrown into the Chaco War with little training and incompetent officers. Fighting in an unforgiving wasteland, Carlos needs all his resources to survive as the Bolivian Army suffers defeat after defeat. At war's end he swears to remedy the injustice done to him and his fellow soldiers. At La Paz, Carlos participates in a secret army lodge which overthrows the civili...