The short essays help remove some of the mystery of science, giving readers clear and concise information in language that is easy to understand. And they are fun to read.
The short essays help remove some of the mystery of science, giving readers clear and concise information in language that is easy to understand. And they are fun to read.
Sample Contents Benjamin Franklin and the Swatches on the Snow Once You've Had It, You Can't Catch It Again Why Is the Sky Blue? Static Electricity Why One Rotten Apple Can Spoil the Barrel Superconductors Does Smoking Cause Lung Cancer? What Is a Gene? Why Do Cats' Eyes Glow at Night? Paul Ehrlich, Dyes, and Drugs Why You Can Never Get to the End of the Rainbow The Difference between a Square and a Diamond Sounds over a Lake at Evening Do the Best Dogs Come from the Pound? Flip a Coin, Beat the Odds Stroboscopic Stagecoach Wheels Why Are Bells Made of Metal? Why Rivers Don't Flow in a Straight Line What's Your Average Speed? The Basic Unit of Life How Aspirin Got Its Name Cold Water at the Bottom of a Lake Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men? A Thirty Percent Chance of Rain Limeys How Does Lung Cancer Start? The Light of Spring Vitamines and Vitamins Colors and Their Opposites How Does the World Look to a Bee? Death of the Dinosaurs: A Quick Review Why Do We Put Cut Flowers in Water? Life without Zero Prostaglandins Sweetened Condensed Milk What the Weather Report Doesn't Tell You Why Mowing the Lawn Doesn't Kill the Grass Galileo's Job Application The Consequences of Smallness Ozone and Ice Benjamin Franklin's Madeira Wine Surprise Viruses Attack Bacteria The Birth of the Atomic Age Honest Answers to Personal Questions Risk Assessment Broken Symmetry: Cosmetic or Cosmic? Antimatter Does Nature Abhor a Vacuum? How Does Water Get to the Top of a Tree? What Could Change Earth's Climate? Death of the Dinosaurs Revisited How Many Girls, How Many Boys? Modern Biology in a Monastery Garden Neutrinos and the End of the Universe Cooking an Egg The Most Important Fly in the History of Science How Plants Fight Sort Nuts by Shaking the Can Everybody Talks about Genes-But What Do They Do? How Cockraoches Get Away A New Person from a Nose? The Mysterious Number Pi Newton's Rainbow The Sweet Spot on a Baseball Bat Make an Image without a Lens Fluorescent Lamps Carbon Dating Soap Bubbles and Butterfly Wings Tracing the Roots of Energy Light Takes Time Read Fine Print through a Pinhole Infection: A Struggle between Two Organisms Why Doesn't a Pregnant Women Reject Her Fetus? The Floating Cork Trick Microbursts and Airplane Crashes What's inside an Atom? When Pop Bottles Don't Blow Up... and When They Do It's Not What You Hear-It's When You Hear It Weightless Water Getting Robbed in the Camera Obscura Sperm Meets Egg: What Really Happens The Curve of a Meandering River Why Chickens Don't Have Webbed Feet Our Most Distant Relatives
Sample Contents Benjamin Franklin and the Swatches on the Snow Once You've Had It, You Can't Catch It Again Why Is the Sky Blue? Static Electricity Why One Rotten Apple Can Spoil the Barrel Superconductors Does Smoking Cause Lung Cancer? What Is a Gene? Why Do Cats' Eyes Glow at Night? Paul Ehrlich, Dyes, and Drugs Why You Can Never Get to the End of the Rainbow The Difference between a Square and a Diamond Sounds over a Lake at Evening Do the Best Dogs Come from the Pound? Flip a Coin, Beat the Odds Stroboscopic Stagecoach Wheels Why Are Bells Made of Metal? Why Rivers Don't Flow in a Straight Line What's Your Average Speed? The Basic Unit of Life How Aspirin Got Its Name Cold Water at the Bottom of a Lake Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men? A Thirty Percent Chance of Rain Limeys How Does Lung Cancer Start? The Light of Spring Vitamines and Vitamins Colors and Their Opposites How Does the World Look to a Bee? Death of the Dinosaurs: A Quick Review Why Do We Put Cut Flowers in Water? Life without Zero Prostaglandins Sweetened Condensed Milk What the Weather Report Doesn't Tell You Why Mowing the Lawn Doesn't Kill the Grass Galileo's Job Application The Consequences of Smallness Ozone and Ice Benjamin Franklin's Madeira Wine Surprise Viruses Attack Bacteria The Birth of the Atomic Age Honest Answers to Personal Questions Risk Assessment Broken Symmetry: Cosmetic or Cosmic? Antimatter Does Nature Abhor a Vacuum? How Does Water Get to the Top of a Tree? What Could Change Earth's Climate? Death of the Dinosaurs Revisited How Many Girls, How Many Boys? Modern Biology in a Monastery Garden Neutrinos and the End of the Universe Cooking an Egg The Most Important Fly in the History of Science How Plants Fight Sort Nuts by Shaking the Can Everybody Talks about Genes-But What Do They Do? How Cockraoches Get Away A New Person from a Nose? The Mysterious Number Pi Newton's Rainbow The Sweet Spot on a Baseball Bat Make an Image without a Lens Fluorescent Lamps Carbon Dating Soap Bubbles and Butterfly Wings Tracing the Roots of Energy Light Takes Time Read Fine Print through a Pinhole Infection: A Struggle between Two Organisms Why Doesn't a Pregnant Women Reject Her Fetus? The Floating Cork Trick Microbursts and Airplane Crashes What's inside an Atom? When Pop Bottles Don't Blow Up... and When They Do It's Not What You Hear-It's When You Hear It Weightless Water Getting Robbed in the Camera Obscura Sperm Meets Egg: What Really Happens The Curve of a Meandering River Why Chickens Don't Have Webbed Feet Our Most Distant Relatives
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