EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Micromegas is a compilation as well as an updated version of the best articles published by Manuel Toharia in his column at Diario 16 about the world of scientific and technological knowledge. They are brief texts that include the following topics: Knowledge, The Environment, The Cosmos, Health, and Power and Technology. The intention of the book is to make us aware of the latest news about scientific facts by means of a comment on an opinion that complements the information and divulgation of these issues. Thus we can enter the pseudo-sciences, get to know the "left-handed" electrons, become aware of the problems of the civilization of waste, and so on, up to more than seventy different topics. A good way to improve our scientific knowledge.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contenido.

-Prólogo por Jesús de la Serna.

-El Conocimiento.

-El Medio Ambiente.

-El Cosmos.

-La Salud.

-Energía y Tecnología.

OUR REVIEW

Manuel Toharia, perhaps the best known Spanish science writer thanks to his remarkable presence on television, radio, lectures, newspaper and magazine articles, etc., is specially skilled at telling us about the most important aspects of scientific knowledge. He has done so in all these media, though mainly in the written press, so that some of his texts, seen as a whole, turn out to be a delightful introduction to Science in its most varied aspects.

In this book, McGraw-Hill gather some of the most interesting issues dealt with by Toharia in Micromegas, his weekly column, and makes a fascinating revision of the scientific facts that have attracted the attention most during these last years available to the average reader. The articles, brief as they are, have been classified into four large chapters, thus facilitating their reading and reference use. Nonetheless, it must be noted that the topics in each case usually have not only information but also the subjective opinions of the science writer, opinions which render this a very personal book, a very particular vision of what Science is and what Science has to attract the average citizen who has a scant knowledge of this subject from Toharia's point of view.