Vince Beiser

Vince Beiser is author of The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization, which was released in paperback on August 6.

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Feeling the Heat? Blame Concrete

If your city was slammed by record-shattering heat this summer, you can partly blame the stuff the city itself is made of. The scorching temperatures across Europe and the U.S. in July were made worse...

By Vince Beiser
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