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Dunk Your Biscuit Horizontally: 106 Strange Scientific Facts
Author(s): Rik Kuiper (Author), Tonie Mudde (Author)
- Publisher: Summersdale
- Publication Date: 7 Jun. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 128 pages
- ISBN-10: 184953053X
- ISBN-13: 9781849530538
Book Description
Always dunk your biscuit horizontally
Drinking beer is good for the environment
A wig is safer than a cycling helmet
Based on international scientific research but presented in a tongue-in-cheek style, Curious Science reveals startling truths guaranteed to change your life – or at least make you popular at dinner parties. Fascinating and often hilarious, it will open your eyes to the quirky science behind our everyday lives. Discover the best time of day to be operated on, how kissing is good for hay fever, how to appear more intelligent effortlessly – plus many other tips for work and home, for eating and drinking and for a better love life.
Editorial Reviews
Review
`compendium of strange and weird scientific facts.’
— How It Works magazine, July 2010
`a collection of explanations and scientific findings on everyday life from around the world… Gems of knowledge.’
–BMA (British Medical Association) News, 17th July 2010
Serialised in The Mail on Sunday –Serialised in The Mail on Sunday
‘A quirky book delves into the stranger side of medical science… bizarre findings from around the world’ –The Mail on Sunday, 31 October 2010
‘bite-sized strange science… a great gift for anyone whose sense of humour encompasses both the scientific and the scatological.’ –Physics World, October 2010
