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The Things That Nobody Knows: 501 Mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything

The Things That Nobody Knows: 501 Mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything

by WilliamHartston (Author)

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    Hardcover 2011

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Synopsis

HERE ARE MANY, MANY THINGS THAT NOBODY KNOWS ...Why are so many giraffes gay? Has human evolution stopped? Where did our alphabet come from? Can robots become self-aware? Can lobsters recognize other lobsters by sight? What goes on inside a black hole? Are cell phones bad for us? Why can't we remember anything from our earliest years? Full of the mysteries of life, the universe and everything, The Things that Nobody Knows is a fascinating and unputdownable exploration of the limits of human knowledge of our planet, its history and culture, and the universe beyond.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 01 Oct 2011
ISBN 10: 1848878257
ISBN 13: 9781848878259

Media Reviews
Why are male cats more likely to be left-pawed and female cats right-pawed? It is enormously reassuring to know that somewhere a natural philosopher is trying to find out... slyly witty and pleasingly optimistic. * Guardian *
Hartston charts mankind's attempts to solve these conundra with deep research and his usual deadpan drollery, but the overall effect, as the unsolvables pile up, is oddly comforting. * Spectator *
Discovering the many undiscovered things that one thought had been discovered already is one of the joys of this book... You might have thought that wallowing in ignorance is a tedious and fruitless occupation. As Hartston proves entertainingly, how wrong you would be. -- Christopher Silvester * Daily Express *
Author Bio
William Hartston is a Cambridge-educated mathematician and industrial psychologist. In his ill-spent youth, he played chess competitively, becoming an international master and winning the British chess championship in 1973 and 1975. He runs a competition in creative thinking for the Mind Sports Olympiad. He writes the off-beat Beachcomber column for the Daily Express, for which he is also the opera critic, and has written a number of books on chess, numbers, humour, useless academic research and trivia.