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Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? The Best Brains Answer the Biggest and Smallest Scientific Questions

Hardcover • 2005 • English

Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? The Best Brains Answer the Biggest and Smallest Scientific Questions

By Paul Heiney

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About the book

What is ear wax for? Do bacteria have sex? How do they put stripes in toothpaste? Does your nose run in space? What are stars made of? This book answers those tantalising or perplexing questions for which you thought you'd never find an answer. A book for the naturally curious, as well as those seekers after scientific truths, it unravels both those things we take for granted, such as, when you boil an egg, why does the yolk stay in the middle, or why is the sky blue, as well as questions which ...Show more

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9780750937474

Publisher

Sutton

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? The Best Brains Answer the Biggest and Smallest Scientific Questions

Format

Hardcover

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