Review
"'If you have ever wondered why hair turns grey, fingers get crinkled in the bath or if the Great Wall of China really is visible from space, Mick O'Hare has the answers.' CNN 'Extraordinary book... responsible for putting popular science back on its feet.' BBC Radio 5 Live."
Publishing News
`It's very funny, very ingenious and not hard to foresee another
Christmas bestseller.'
Christmas bestseller.'
The Times
`Discover the speed of light with a bar of chocolate...reveals the amazing appliance of oddball science.'
Publishing News
`It's very funny, very ingenious and not hard to foresee another
Christmas bestseller.'
Christmas bestseller.'
Book Description
Science at its most popular
News of the World
`You can unravel the secrets of life, the universe and everything in your own kitchen...brilliant.'
Product Description
How can you measure the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave? Why do yo-yos yo-yo? Why does urine smell so peculiar after eating asparagus (includes helpful recipe)? How long does it take to digest different types of food? What is going on when you drop mentos in to cola? 100 wonderful, intriguing and entertaining scientific experiments which show scientific principles first hand - this is science at its most popular.
About the Author
Mick O'Hare wears one hat as production editor for New Scientist and another as editor of the 'Last Word' column of questions and answers at the back of the magazine. In this latter guise he edited Profile's recent bestselling book Does Anything Eat Wasps? and its successor Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?. Mick joined New Scientist fourteenyears ago after being the production editor for Autosport. Because you can take the boy out of the north but you can't take the north out of the boy, he freelances as a rugby league writer and also edits sports books. More importantly he is a lifelong supporter of Huddersfield Rugby League Club. He has a geology degree but retains a healthy disregard for crystallography.
