Dr. Joe's Brain Sparks: 178 Inspiring and Enlightening Inquiries Into the Science of Everyday Life - Brossura

Schwarcz, Joe

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385669305 ISBN 13: 9780385669306

Casa editrice: Doubleday of Canada, 2010

Riassunto

Prepare to be amazed once again.

Did you know what when you shake a ketchup bottle you're practicing thixotropy? That the ancient Greeks made themselves look less ancient by inventing moisturizer? That the mysterious drug obecalp* is as effective as homeopathy and many herbal cures? From the bestselling author of An Apple a Day, Brain Fuel, and Science, Sense and Nonsense comes a fresh batch of inquiries into the science of everyday life. Dr. Joe, as he is affectionately known to millions of readers, listeners, viewers, and students, presents his third book in the Doubleday Canada series he launched withBrain Fuel.

Using a Q&A format, it explains the world through science, and science through our common experience. There are sections on diet and nutrition, new drugs, and the dubious claims made for alternative remedies and beauty potions. There is a profusion of inspiring, enlightening, sometime just downright bizarre information drawn from the laboratory, from history, from our medicine cabinets and the bottles under our sinks. Science is everywhere, and Dr. Joe is keeping track - and doing it in a marvelously warm, eminently readable style. Let the brain sparks fly!

*Try reading this word backwards.

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Praise for Brain Fuel:
"Packed with scientific answers to questions you didn't even know you had."
— Chatelaine

L'autore

DR. JOE SCHWARCZ is director of McGill University's Office of Science and Society, where he teaches courses on nutrition and the applications of chemistry to everyday life. Among his many honours are the Royal Society of Canada's McNeil Award, and the American Chemistry Society's renowned Grady-Stack Award, of which he is the only non-American recipient. Schwarcz is the host of a weekly radio show on CFRB in Toronto and CJAD in Montreal, and writes a weekly column for the MontrealGazette.

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• Editore: Doubleday of Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0385669305
• ISBN 13: 9780385669306
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 312