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Title: How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life by Len Fisher ISBN: 1-55970-680-5 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Pepper and Handsprings
Comment: As a non-science oriented person, I found myself skipping around in this book, skimming parts about claw hammers and boomerangs, but reading the entire chapter on supermarket bills. Frankly, that doughnut on the cover got my attention, and the fact that I had just heard about the Ignobel Prize on the radio, which the author of this book has won.
I enjoyed the chapter on The Physics of Sex, but had to read the notes to find out why a woman taking the antidepressant clomipramine supplemented her dosage with pepper. (You'll have to read it yourself, I don't want Amazon removing my review!)
In addition to making science more accessible, Fisher makes scientists seem more human. He describes colleagues of his reacting to successes by singing, shouting, and one who removed all his clothes and did a series of handsprings. Now that is a happy scientist.
Rating: 5
Summary: The scientific mind at work .... and loving it
Comment: With an enthusiasm that is clearly contagious, the author applies scientific reasoning and methodology to better understand certain things in everyday life that we may take for granted. Topics that are examined under the microscope of the author's sharp and witty mind include: the science of cooking, the scientific principles behind tool usage, boomerang design and throwing, quick determination the cheapest supermarket, the physics of sex, and more. The author's excitement in describing his scientific approach to these matters stands out - much as an excited child describing the joys of discovering something new and wonderful, but in a clear, lucid, even funny, way. Complete with lots of diagrams and charts, this book is pleasure to read. The author has definitely succeeded in clearly illustrating how the scientific method and the scientific mind work, and all this in a most enjoyable way.
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Title: Why Things Break : Understanding the World by the Way It Comes Apart by MARK EBERHART ISBN: 1400047609 Publisher: Harmony Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe by S. W. Hawking, Stephen W. Hawking ISBN: 1932407073 Publisher: New Millennium Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Scientists : A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors by JOHN GRIBBIN ISBN: 1400060133 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design by HENRY PETROSKI ISBN: 1400040507 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research by Marc Abrahams ISBN: 0525947531 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: 25 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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