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Patchen Barss is a Toronto-based science journalist who has contributed to the BBC, Nautilus magazine, Scientific American , and the Discovery Channel (Canada), as well as to many science and natural history museums. His previous books include The Erotic Engine: How Pornography Has Powered Mass Communication, from Gutenberg to Google, and Flow Spin Grow: Looking for Patterns in Nature.

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Quasicrystals Spill Secrets of Their Formation

New studies of the ‘platypus of materials’ help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.

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Patchen Barss’s books

Average rating: 3.82 · 531 ratings · 106 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius 3.98 avg rating — 350 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flow, Spin, Grow: Looking for Patterns in Nature by Patchen Barss, Todd Stewart (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.54 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Erotic Engine: How Pornography has Powered Mass Communication, from Gutenberg to Google 3.41 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sentence That Thought Life Was Simple by Corey Frost (editor and author), Patchen Barss, Stephen Edgar it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El hombre imposible: Roger Penrose y el precio de la genialidad (Drakontos) by Patchen Barss, Pedro Pacheco González (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Impossible Man by Patchen Barss, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sir Roger Penrose. Geniusz i jego droga do rzeczywistości 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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