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Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to RealityIn a wonderful example of nominative determinism, fellow Naked Scientists presenter Helen Scales is a marine biologist, and has written an absolutely lovely book about seahorses called Poseidon's Steed.Seahorses are fascinating near-mythical creatures - part m... |
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: MicrobesFar from a sterile read!This is an absolutely tremendous book, which introduces the wonderful world of the very small but with beautiful big colour photographs. In this respect, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly is worlds apart from the majority of microbi... |
The Twitter BookFrom Twitter-sceptic to Twitter-phile just about sums up my assessment. For many months I remained steadfastly unconvinced about the potential of Twitter to be anything other than a toy: amusing and fun, but a total waste of time. But now that I know... |
The Chemical History of a CandleMichael Faraday was a great experimental scientist developing the first electric motor, generator and dynamo along with discoverying electromagnetic induction along with inventing the science of electrochemistry. However he was famous in his own day for his hu... |
Right Hand, Left HandRight Hand, Left Hand : The origins of asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures, by Chris McManus, Professor of Psychology at University College London and winner ... |
Memory and Emotion…memory is absolutely critical for our existence as human beings…it is, without doubt, our most important possession, our most critical capacity. We are, after all, our memories. ... |
Eureka! The Birth of ScienceAndrew Gregory, author of Eureka! The Birth of Science, promises a book that 'attempts to capture the essence and the spirit of Greek achievement, and something of ... |
An Entertainment for Angels"Franklin made a strong kite from a silk handkerchief and a cedar cross carrying a sharp, pointed wire. To the kite's string he attached a metal key carefully wrapped in dry ... |
The Next Fifty Years'To undertake long range predictions is Promethean: The fate of predictions, if not of the predictor, is like to be unhappy. Still, the challenge is hard to ignore.' The Next Fift... |
Constant Touch"...in 1910, in a spirit of tinkering, Ericsson built a telephone into his wife Hilda's car, the vehicle connected by wires and poles to the overhead telephone lines that had... |
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