Plutonic Sonnets

Anthropologist Robert Bates Graber's 165 sonnets constitute a sort of "dig"-- the kind which unearths connections between a volcano spewing hot lava and Pluto, Roman god of the underworld, or the kind a comedian might use to bury a politician--or the kind of digging a scholar does when he's studying the role of rivalries in the development of telescopes, or of sexism in the history of science. After Pluto got plutoed, a friend asked Graber, "Does plutonium still get to be an element?" and G...