| Edition |
STEM edition. |
| Description |
199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Title from page 1 of cover. |
| Summary |
A collection of real life stories spanning the ages and the globe, from science, technology, engineering and mathematics. |
| Contents |
Full of hot air -- London Bridge is where? -- The 9 year old with a dagger made from a meteor -- Was the father of modern vaccines a slave from the 1700s? -- The mystery of Skeleton Lake -- Dinosaur bone battles -- Nikola Tesla's death ray and how he fell in love with a pigeon -- Talking trees? -- The strange truth about wasp faces -- Can junk food make you go blind? Don't let your parents read this! -- Ferrari pit crew gives hospital surgery staff a lesson on efficiency -- The famous oceanographer who wanted to be in the air -- Math can taste REALLY good -- First you, then me -- Someone just got an earful -- Queens, roller coasters, & Coney Island -- Cockroaches feasting on moon rocks -- The surprising, secret life of Isaac Newton -- Can dead people talk if they have golden tongues? -- Lucky peanuts -- Meet the giant snake that ate dinosaurs -- The Wright brothers -- NASA's unknown math whizzes -- Mystery in the mountains -- The night the lights went out in Times Square -- The worst casting job in Hollywood history actually killed most of the movie's actors -- The Brooklyn Bridge & a celebratory rooster -- Sleeping in space -- Look out below! -- Memorial on Mars -- A man who wasn't a doctor, blue babies, and the invention of heart surgery -- Medical students battle animal rights activists -- This 19 year old just spent 155 days flying around the world -- A year in space? Are you even my brother anymore? -- The oldest rocks on Earth -- 7th grader makes a big discovery -- House of bones -- What are the chances? -- "Willebrord Snellius, you get down from there this instant!" -- Kids (and science) help solve a 300-year-old shipwreck mystery -- Man, it's windy today! -- Four year old girl discovers 220 million year old fossil -- Hidden pictures -- The Dark Lady of DNA -- How heavy IS that hairball??? -- Giant sea monster mystery -- The forest is on fire? These adorable creatures don't care -- How good manners led to this well known invention -- Even the most brilliant scientists can have the most bitter enemies -- Can science explain a haunted Elsa doll? -- The scoop on the Super Soaker -- Take this snow and shovel it -- Cruising in a taxi with NO driver?! -- Science fair project underwhelms judges, but impresses scientists! -- The dancing lights -- Happy cows -- Don't be blue -- The shark tooth that spent 25 years inside a surfer's foot -- The power of hope -- The 17 year old who worked on the world's first calculator -- All roads lead to Rome -- The girl who discovered underwater mountains -- Nice shades, bro! -- Can you really just grow a new ear...on your arm? -- Is there not a Nobel Prize for math because Alfred Nobel hated mathematicians? -- An invention born from kitchen clumsiness -- Earthquakes & moonquakes -- You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours -- My snack melted! -- A superhero robot to the rescue -- A life saving heart device inspired by a sailboat -- Are you for real? -- How smart are you? Well, let's measure -- Help the war effort! With Silly Putty? -- Every important innovation is usually met with really silly skepticism. |
| Subject |
History -- Miscellanea.
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Science -- Miscellanea.
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Mathematics -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature.
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Technology -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature.
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Engineering -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature.
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History. (OCoLC)fst00958235
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Science. (OCoLC)fst01108176
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| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01921748
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Added Author |
Ratkovic, Davor, illustrator.
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| Added Title |
Stories for curious kids STEM edition |
| ISBN |
9781953429308 |
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1953429300 |
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