Conundrums and curiosities

Thirteen Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time By Michael Brooks Doubleday, 240 pp., $23.95 Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum By Richard Fortey Knopf, 335 pp., illustrated, $27.50 "The flesh of the tortoise is reported to be useful for fumigation and for countering magic tricks and poisons," ... (Full article: 812 words)

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