# Sandbows and Blacklights coming out this months

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**Created:** [February 1, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandbows-and-blacklights-coming-out-this-months/932003 "2021-02-01T16:45:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandbows-and-blacklights-coming-out-this-months/932003/1 "2021-02-01T16:45:15Z")

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> **[Sandbows and Black Lights](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sandbows-and-black-lights-9780197518571?cc=us&lang=en&)**
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> Why are candle flames yellow? Why does ultraviolet light supposedly kill vampires? What about the monocle? Why was the monocle--a corrective lens that only corrects vision in a single eye--so popular among businessmen and politicians for so many...

My new book is up on Amazon already

> **[Amazon.com: Sandbows and Black Lights: Reflections on Optics: 9780197518571:...](https://www.amazon.com/Sandbows-Black-Lights-Reflections-Optics/dp/0197518575)**
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> Amazon.com: Sandbows and Black Lights: Reflections on Optics: 9780197518571: Wilk, Stephen R.: Books

And on the WalMart page  
[https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sandbows-and-Black-Lights-Reflections-on-Optics-Hardcover/334058153](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sandbows-and-Black-Lights-Reflections-on-Optics-Hardcover/334058153)

In other news:  
I added recordings of the Wonderland Music to my Lost Wonderland page

> **[Wonderland Music](https://lost-wonderland.com/wonderland-music/)**
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> Wonderland was built before the Internet, before Television, before Radio, almost before widespread use of the Phonograph. Songs and Jingles are a very effective medium to advertise an amusement en…

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandbows-and-blacklights-coming-out-this-months/932003/2 "2021-03-02T03:44:20Z")

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I got my copies of Sandbows and Black Lights today!

Check out my website

> **[Sandbows and Black Lights](https://srichardwilkcom.wordpress.com/sandbows-and-black-lights/)**
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> A new book on Weird Optics released March 1 2021 The Sequel to How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap! Available from Oxford University Press Also available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble “These are o…