How to Make a Tornado: The strange and wonderful things that happen when scientists break free - Brossura
Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we don't often hear about because they are so specialised, or turn out to be dead ends. Yet researchers have given hallucinogenic drugs to blind people (seriously), tried to weigh the soul as it departs the body and planned to blast a new Panama Canal with atomic weapons. Real scientific breakthroughs sometimes come out of the most surprising and unpromising work. How to Make a Tornado is about the margins of science - not the research down tried-and-tested routes, but some of its zanier and more brilliant by-ways. Investigating everything from what it's like to die, to exploding trousers and recycled urine, this book is a reminder that science is intensely creative and often very amusing - and when their minds run free, scientists can fire the imagination like nobody else.
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This playful collection ... provides an absorbing commuter read ... casting a light on the wackier side of science and invention (Arifa Akbar Independent 2009-10-09)
Witty anthology of oddities and oddballs (Saga Magazine)
Fascinating, intelligent and funny (Michael Jones Independent 2009-11-14)
Fantastically dry humour ... will satisfy anyone with a thirst for the excesses of scientific creativity (Rupert van den Broek Independent on Sunday 2009-11-29)
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Witty anthology of oddities and oddballs (Saga Magazine)
Fascinating, intelligent and funny (Michael Jones Independent 2009-11-14)
Fantastically dry humour ... will satisfy anyone with a thirst for the excesses of scientific creativity (Rupert van den Broek Independent on Sunday 2009-11-29)
The next title in the brilliant and bestselling New Scientist series
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- EditoreProfile Books Ltd
- Data di pubblicazione2009
- ISBN 10 1846682878
- ISBN 13 9781846682872
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine240
- RedattoreO'Hare Mick
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