| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Somata -- Make history, not Vitamin C -- Saving Ethiopia's "Church forests" -- What it feels like for a sperm -- Incredible journey -- In the shadows of greatness -- A view to a kill in the morning -- It's sedimentary, my dear Watson -- Mentruation is just blood and tissue you ended up not using -- Joule's jewel -- Unraveling the fear o' the jolly -- Free science, one paper at a time -- Tinea speaks up: a fairy tale -- Man discovers a new life-form at a South African Truck Stop -- Moon arts: fallen astronaut -- Scicence metaphors: resonance -- Bombardier beetles, bee purple, and the sirens of the night --Mpemba's baffling discovery -- Romeo: a lone Wolf's tragedy in three acts -- Rats, bees, and brains: the death of the "Cognitive map" -- Don't panic: sustainable seafood and the American outlaw -- On beards, biology, and being a real American -- I love Gin and Tonics -- Adorers of the good science of rock-breaking -- "I feel the percussive roar on the skin of my face" -- Freedom to riot -- Insidethe "Black box" of nuclear power plants -- This ain't yo momma's muktuk -- Chessboxing is fighting for good behavior -- Mirror images: twins and identity -- Did the CIA fake a vaccination campaign? -- Free will and quantum clones -- Dear Emma B -- Faster than a speeding photon -- Sunrise in the garden of dreams -- Volts and vespa: buzzing about photoelectric wasps -- How to stop a hurricane -- Shakes on a plane: can Turbulence kill you? -- Howaddiction feels: the honest truth -- Ten million feet upon the stair -- Woof! living boldly as a "free-range aspergian" -- The dodo is dead, long live the dodo! -- Sex and the married neurotic -- Why do women cry? obviously it's so they don't get laid -- How to take the real measure of a man -- The origin and extinction of species -- Genome sequencing and assembly, Shakespeare style -- The intelligent homosexual's guide to natural selection -- The Renaissance man -- Fragmented intimacies -- The human lake. |
| Subject |
Science -- Popular works.
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Scientists' writings.
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| Added Author |
Ouellette, Jennifer.
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Zivkovic, Bora.
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| ISBN |
9780374533342 paperback |
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0374533342 paperback |
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