Please Note: Illustration(s) are not available due to copyright restrictions. Its colorful argument about the impact of human phosphorous use and its damage simply should not be missed. That's why the history and science in The Devil's Element is so important to include not just in libraries devoted to books about ecology, environment, or science but in those reaching general-interest audiences. Today phosphorous is at the center of a threat to environmental freshwater sources, but this is a story too often understated in popular news, which doesn't reach the non-science reader's attention. Finally, we close out the hour talking with Don Brown of 'This Week in Waukesha' discussing how mad the with weekend of March Madness was. It was first refined from human urine in a 18th-century lab, and The Devil's Element follows its development and importance to human life. Then Dan Egan joins to talk about his new book, 'The Devil's Element: phosphorus and a world out of balance' and we learn way more than we thought about 'the oil of our time'. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance is an unusual science and social history of phosphorous, one of the planet's most important and dangerous natural resources. Retrieved from ĥ00 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10110 MLA style: "The Devil's Element." The Free Library.
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