Thompson art for National Geographic's New Everyday Science Explained

Yesterday would have been Richard's 62nd birthday. In honor of that, we've recently been told of a book where Richard contributed over a score of drawings, and we'll share some of them with you. Richard's drawings were used in the 1996 edition called Everyday Science Explained and then reprinted in 2003. His ability to do scientific cartoons was well established by this point as he'd been illustrating Why Things Are with Joel Achenbach for the Washington Post and Curt Suplee was a former science columnist for the paper. I don't recall seeing the originals to these, and don't know if they were in his archive when we were working on The Art of Richard Thompson.
In The New Everyday Science Explained, by Curt Suplee, National Geographic, 2003, ISBN 0-7922-7357-5, Richard Thompson is given credit for the following drawings (thanks to National Geographic collector Richard Kennedy for the list):
p. 15 (bottom) Kicking soccer and bowling ballsp. 20 Stepping from dinghy to dockp. 27 (left) Elastic vs. inelastic collisions with a tennis racketp. 30 (bottom) Car breaking downp. 32 (bottom) Archimedes on a lever lifting the worldp. 68 Couple running on beach demonstrating convection of heatp. 76 (bottom) Man in elevator demonstrating accelerationp. 80 Bullet dropped and fired hit the ground simultaneously p. 87 Couple demonstrating that opposites attractp. 94-95 House showing multiple motorsp. 114 Man on sidewalk being bombarded by different electromagnetic signalsp. 130 (bottom) Periodic table of elements in classroom settingp. 134 Man holding hoop with animals jumping through it showing the work of catalystsp. 144 Man adding water to glass tub of ingredients and creating a new person illustrating that our bodies are mostly waterp. 168  (bottom) Fashion models on runway wearing barrels marked with artificial ingredientsp. 186 Cafeteria "Build You Own PROTEIN at the Amino Acid Bar"p. 190 Hamsters on stadium seating holding panels that make a picture of a hamsterp. 193 Three dogs showing chromosome transmittal to offspringp. 212 Flu viruses in front of "International Panel of Scientists"p. 237 (top) Man on assembly line demonstrating liver functionsp. 244 Drawing of a person with body parts sized according to the number of sensory nerves they containp. 246 Interior of head showing that images on the retina are upside downp. 264 Man in bed dreamingWe'll return to these two books and compare the contents of the 1996 and 2003 editions when we get a copy of the earlier book.