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Indlæser... Why Can't Elephants Jump? and 113 more science questions answered (2010)af O'HARE, Mick O'Hare (Redaktør)
   Ingen Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  nwhyte | Jan 22, 2012 |   I found most of the questions interesting and the answers are mostly well founded. In many cases, people active in relevant research fields or otherwise well qualified contribute: for example, one response to the jumping elephant question is from R. McNeill Alexander, a leading expert in biomechanics. 2  jimroberts | May 3, 2011 | http://www.stillhq.com/book/New_Scientist/Why_Cant_Elephants_Jump.html (  ) mikal | Dec 1, 2010 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML: From the editors that brought you Why Don't Penguin's Feet Freeze? and Do Sparrows Like Bach?,an exploration of the weird and wonderful margins of scienceâ??the latest in brilliant New Scientist series What's the storage capacity of the human brain in gigabytes? Why is frozen milk yellow? Why do flamingos stand on one leg? And why can't elephant's jump? Is it because elephants are too large or heavy (after all, they say hippos and rhinos can play hopscotch)? Or is it because their knees face the wrong way? Or do they just wait until no one's looking? Read this brilliant new compilation to find out. This is popular science at its most absorbing and enjoyable. The previous titles in the New Scientist series have been international bestsellers and sold over two million copies between them and here is another wonderful collection of wise, witty, and often surprising answers to a staggering range of science questions. No library descriptions found. |
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Another great collection of New Scientist columns with readers asking questions and other readers answering them. Lots of interesting trivia; two different answers given for why we westerners tend to eat a sweet course at the end of the meal (not totally sure I believe either of them); the title question is answered somewhere in the middle; at the very end, a question about how Big Ben is kept on time is answered by someone who had actually had the job of keeping it on time. Entertaining stuff. (