Ocean of Air

''I never knew air could be so interesting'' Bill Bryson
''A wonderful lesson in how science works'' Simon Singh, Daily Telegraph
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We not only live in the air, we live because of it.

At ground level air transforms miraculously; it wraps our planet in a blanket of warmth, while the outer layer of our atmosphere soaks up violent flares from the sun. And air is about much more than ju...