How to Fossilise Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments For The Armchair Scientist

How to Fossilise Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments For The Armchair Scientist

by Mick O ' Hare (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: Main
Publisher: Profile
Published: 04 Oct 2007

ISBN 10: 1846680441
ISBN 13: 9781846680441
Book Overview: Science at its most popular

Media Reviews
I can't wait to create a six-metre fountain with a bottle of Coca-Cola and a packet of Mentos. * Bookseller *
It's very funny, very ingenious and not hard to foresee another Christmas bestseller. * Publishing News *
Full of really fun things you can inflict on your family. * BBC Radio 5 Live *
Discover the speed of light with a bar of chocolate ... reveals the amazing appliance of oddball science. * The Times *
You can unravel the secrets of life, the universe and everything in your own kitchen ... brilliant. * News of the World *
Author Bio
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.