Please Explain
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On Sale:
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1/11/2007
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Formats:
Trade paperback
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′What are the facts? Again and again and again -- what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking ... avoid opinion ... facts are your single clue. Get the facts!′
-- Time Enough for Love, Robert Heinlein
Does eating celery make you lighter? Do you have to be dying to have a near-death experience? Is a yawn a silent, natural scream for air; and if a little oxygen is good for you is more oxygen better? Can the humble spud kill? Did Galileo drop his balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Did a NASA computer really prove a miracle in the Bible actually happened? Is there any substance harder than diamond, and do diamonds really last forever? And exactly how many Eskimo words for ′snow′ are there?
Wherever he goes, people always ask Dr Karl to explain stuff, and in this his 26th book (26 is the only number directly between a square and a cube), he explains more myths and curly questions.
Visit Dr Karl at www.drkarl.com
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Author Extras
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Never Mind the Bullocks, Here's the Science
Dr Karl has taken on Santa Claus, atom bombs, ′friendly′ dolphins and ′killer′ whales, meteors, black holes, string theory and camel′s humps. In his 27 mega-selling books, he demolishes myths, tells readers how to spot bogus science and...
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Science is Golden
′Nullius in verba′, The Royal Society′s motto, roughly translated, means
′Take nobody′s word for it′. Why not do the experiment
for yourself and see the reality of nature. Don′t trust authority - trust nature. Does cranberry...
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Brain Wars
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The brain can be weighed, measured, scanned, dissected, and studied. The mind that we conceive to be generated by the brain, however, remains a mystery. It has no mass, no volume, and no shape, and it cannot be measured in space and time. Yet it is as real as neurons, neurotransmitters, and...
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Collins Fungi Guide: The Most Complete Field Guide to the Mushrooms and
By Stefan Buczacki, Christopher Shields
Every species is illustrated in colour, directly opposite the species description, with illustrations of young and mature fruiting bodies where necessary. Nearly 2,400 species are illustrated in full colour, with detailed notes on how to correctly identify them, with details of...
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