Congratulations to our very own Dr. John Marra (EES, Brooklyn College and GC) on the publication of his new book! Marra, John F. 2019. Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science (New York: Columbia University Press).   “There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for its unusually long half-life. Best known for its application to estimating the age of artifacts—carbon dating—carbon-14 helped reveal new chronologies of human civilization and geological time. Everything containing carbon, the basis of all life, could be placed in time according to the clock …