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What happens when you hurl your homework in the air?
... you will need: - A rectangular (preferably hardback) book - An elastic band to hold the pages together How to do the experiment: 1 - Take the book and put the elastic band around it to keep the pages together. 2 - Hold the book in your hands so that the book is flat and the spine is ...
Andy Weir's new book 'Project Hail Mary'
... Andy Weir wrote that story, and now he’s got a new book coming out called Project Hail Mary. He told Chris Smith ... actually doing useful things for society, and I wrote a book! My book does have microbes that are indirectly deadly to ...
Paperless Paperbacks?
... on November the 19th, Kindle is Amazon's electronic book reader, this is the device that we've all been waiting ... and you would be able to search through it and look at any book you wanted. Well, the kindle offers you the opportunity ... same time a lot of people saying this isn't quite the e-book reader that maybe we've been hoping for, that we still ...
Steve Jones - The Selfish Gene at 40
... a quote from The Selfish gene, Richard Dawkins' landmark book that was first published in 1976. I caught up with ... of genetics at UCL - Steve Jones, to find out how the book, and the ideas in it, were received when it first came ... which isn't to deny the fact that it's a very important book in the public perception of genetics. Kat - From what I ...
Tech Update - E-Books and E-Readers
... in there's nothing better than to curl up with a good book. Of course there has been lot of tech excitement ... around the launch of the latest version of Amazon's E-book reader with a bigger screen. Lot of excitement about ... a couple of British entrants into the market; two E-book Readers due out maybe later in the year, one from a ...
How To Improve your Memory
... here's Ron Hale-Evans from the US, who has written the book Mind Performance Hacks. Hello Ron. Ron - Hi Dr Chris. ... to have you with us. Come on then, tell us about your book. What's it all about? Ron - Well it's about improving ... call hacks. Chris - This is not just a glorified self help book. These things actually do work don't they. Ron - Yes, I ...
How 'junk' DNA could control how species evolve
... coding DNA, you can imagine the contents information of a book. Those words that you enjoy in the book, that is a coding part. On the contrary, we barely pay attention to the binding margin of the book, because it doesn't give us any information. However, ...
Mind Shift: how did our brain come to be?
... from Oxford University, who has recently written a book all about the topic, called Mind Shift. First up, Katie ... a big part of the argument? John - Well, what I did in the book was to very much take inspiration from a psychologist ... reflected also in structural changes. But I argue in the book that it's about far more than size, and it's also about ...
'The Laws of Connection,' with David Robson
... these questions and more ahead of the release of his new book ‘The Laws of Connection.’ James - David Robson is a science journalist and author. His new book is called 'The Laws of Connection: 13 Social Strategies ... more and more prevalent in society. You write in the book that 50 to 60% of US citizens report feeling social ...
Handmade: materials and the art of crafting
... scientist Anna Ploszajski. She's the author of a new book called Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning ... significance, and their cultural value as well. So the book is the story of my rediscovery of this other side of ... itself. So that was a real epiphany when I was writing the book, and having a go at glassblowing itself: experiencing ...
Seeing Red
One day someone will write a book that explains consciousness. The book will put forward a theory that closes the "explanatory ... have to contain this particular amount of energy." In my book Seeing Red I put forward a theory of consciousness. Now, ...
How Many Licks...?
... us how we can work it out for ourselves. He's written a book and it's called "How many Licks" and it's been published ... out of the physics world and say, "Right. Let's write a book in which we try and look at some of these complicated ... a good idea to just put a clutch of these problems into a book for math. Chris - And the name "How Many Licks," how ...
Protein Origami: Pop-up Books & Nature's Polymers
... even involve killing the cell. And just as the pop-up book is made from pieces of card glued to the page in the ... up its completed 3D shape. And just like opening a pop-up book, most of the time the protein folding works smoothly, ... to inserting a wrongly shaped piece of card in the pop-up book. This causes the mature protein to go out of shape or ...
What makes a mammal?
... Collection in central London for a chat about his new book on this very subject - I, Mammal. Liam - You look it up ... unique jaw joint... And I figured that each chapter of the book would describe fairly independently how each of these ... to try and move beyond that... Kat - This is a scientific book obviously! Liam - Yes, exactly. Well, I did end up ...
'Nostalgia ain't what it used to be,' with Charan Ranganath
... of California at Davis. He’s also the author of the book, ‘Why we remember.' James Tytko started by asking him ... music is a very big part of my life and, when I wrote this book, it was a very personal thing for me to be able to write ... how deeply personal memory is. Actually, since writing the book, I've been just enormously touched by the fact that many ...
Gaming grief
Dr. Pete Etchells from Bath Spa University has written a book called Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us. He told Chris Berrow how the book came about. Pete - Part of the book is about my dad and my dad died when I was 14 of motor ...
Conspiracy theories and your mental immune system
... As he told Chris Smith, he’s just written a book called Mental Immunity, about how to combat bogus facts ... of what Stephen said that I agree with wholeheartedly. My book is about an emerging science that's giving us a new way ... why they fail and how we can make them work better. My book is full of insights from both philosophy and psychology ...
Gecko Glue
... large surface area of the paper in contact with the other book to enable the maximum amount of friction to occur. Ginny - So, the two books that goes page from book one, page from book two, page from book one, page from book two, all the way ...
On the future: Prospects for Humanity
... future? This tricky topic is being tackled in a new book, called - On The Future - by Professor Lord Martin Rees, ... and because of advancing technology. Izzie - And in your book you also mention the report of the Intergovernmental ... and I think we do have a future. And what I say in this book is that the best solution to the climate problem is to ...
The Smell of Old Books?
... which we perceive by the sense of olfaction. An odour of a book is a complex mixture of odorous volatiles, emitted from ... fragrant aliphatic alcohols. A typical odour of 'old book' is thus determined mixture of fragrant volatiles and is ... the same. What is the smell of old books? The older the book, the better it smells. I’m not talking about the old ...
The Science of Well-being
... meaningful. Felicia Huppert takes us on a tour of her new book, The Science of Well-being, in which she and her ... Taking a dynamic cross-disciplinary approach, this book sets out to explore the most promising routes to ... researchers, practitioners and policy advisors. The book is divided into five sections. In Part 1: Evolution and ...
The Lost Family: revelations from DNA tests
In Libby Copeland's new book The Lost Family, she traces the butterfly effects of ... phenomenon. This is a sociological phenomenon. This is a book." Phil - What sort of things were people saying? Libby - ... revelation? Libby - That's what I wanted to discover in my book. And I really think that this is going to be studied as ...
Absurd answers to common problems
... get to interview Randall while he was on tour for his new book, ‘How To’. During his brief stop in Cambridge, he ... an hour before his sold-out talk to chat about his new book. Randall - This is sort of a guide to bad ideas for how to do things. It's not a particularly useful self-help book. I'm the sort of person who's always coming up with ...
Meet the Q&A team!
... health team at Queen Mary University of London. He's got a book coming out next year. It's going to be called ... actually, Jonathan, I've really enjoyed reading this book. It's a beautiful exploration of some of what Emma's ... and really take shape in the modern era as well. In your book, do you actually see how our past leads us to the risk ...
Science of the Big Bang Theory
... and author from LA. Here he tells us about his latest book... Dave - You must take a deep breath to say the entire title of the book Chris. It is, "The Science of TV's The Big Bang Theory: ... screwdrivers. I thought it would be fun to write a little book explaining some of those science references and just ...