The gags and punchiness work, even if the author has made an art form of discovering things you already knew.
This remarkable carbon structure-discovered by researchers at Japan's NEC in 1991-is a close chemical cousin of the buckyball, a new form of carbon discovered by Smalley in 1985.
With Time's Arrow and Evolution, published in 1951, Princeton biology professor Harold Blum persuaded many of his peers that any form of life discovered elsewhere in the cosmos would be wildly different from any to be found on Earth.
In a conflict that has proved endlessly inventive when it comes to human suffering, the impact on Gaza is perhaps best illustrated by the new form of work discovered by little boys here.
Early experimenters, working to create conversation pieces for Victorian parlours or new sensations for the touring magic-lantern shows, which were a popular form of entertainment, discovered the principle of persistence of vision.
This wealthy young investment banker, new at the time to northern Westchester and newly converted to a highly observant form of Judaism, discovered the old congregation and decided to start a campaign to resurrect it, beginning with a nighttime visit to one of its staunchest supporters.
Scientists have already found hematite concretions on Mars, in the form of "blueberries" discovered by the Opportunity rover.
But Kelly's photographs are less analytic, besotted as they are with the joy of discovering forms rather than with making diagnoses, whether architectural, cultural, or otherwise.
We've got a whole new form of government to discover in the coming years, if we take campaign promises seriously.
Don't panic: you need to master another form of writing, not discover the ultimate truth.
