by Karl Kruszelnicki
ISBN: 978 0 7322 8536 4
May get around to tapping this keyboard 4 some excerpts ... in the meantime try these links ... or go out & buy it 4 yourself ... lookin at a computer screen can't compare with having a book in your hot little hands & reading it :)
The first chapter is about planes and how safe they are
10 crazy science facts you didn't know
Another book by Karl - called Please Explain
Maya prophecies by Michael Finley
Chapter about the sun & global warming
The history of science - could limit it 2 astronomy if you feel like it :)
From a tv show called 'Enough rope'
Great mysteries of the natural world
One of which is consciousness itself
Transcript of a tv show featuring Dr Karl
Biography of Leonardo Da Vinci
One chapter is all about dolphins
One chapter touches on digestion
A book mentioned in one of the chapters
What he has 2 say about radioactivity
This being the fist I click on :)
The science behind belly-button lint
Paul Davies is another scientist who has written several books
One chapter discusses falling stars
Encyclopedia entry for the history of the big bang theory
Another deals with runner's high
Particle physics is like hurling 2 watches at each other and work out how a watch works by lookin at the various bits that come flying out :)
One chapter deals with strange matter
History of the black hole concept
Experiment 2 understand atomic structure
Hawking radiation comes from black holes
Article about a 'God particle'
A Brief History of Observational Cosmology
www.newscientist.com
How the brain is more malleable than first thought
The book mentions the Higgs particle
Encyclopedia entry about science
History of astronomy according 2 Encarta
Yes, running can make you high
Could add a few more from the references at end of each chapter ... or why not buy the darned book yourself :)
More references in each chapter - so why not go out & buy it!
Another book I enjoyed but didn't type out any excerpts - I highly recommend it
Just six numbers is a book I haven't got around 2 reading as yet :)
In six days is a similar book I have actually read