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How Can You Tell if a Spider Is Dead? And More Moments of Science
Edited by Don Glass
Published by: Indiana University Press
216 Pages, 1 b&w photos
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Have a minute? That's long enough to learn about rust, quicksand, tiny bubbles, or creaking snow. Or the shape of lightening bolts, how dogs eat, why it's hard to burn one log, or what our pupils tell us. This is a book to reawaken your childhood sense of curiosity. It's a feast of unusual facts and intriguing information for people with lots of curiosity but only a moment to spare. There is something to discover on every page—from what Jello is made of to why you can't heat an ice cube—presented in a concise and entertaining way. These easy-to-understand science stories are sure to delight the curious child in all of us.
A sequel to the popular Why You Can Never Get to the End of the Rainbow and Other Moments of Science, also available from Indiana University Press.
Partial Table of Contents
The Shape of the Earth
A Rising Fastball
Pine Tar Home Runs
The Force of a Tornado
Anemia
Newton, Tennis, and the Nature of Light
Stereo in 1881
A Water Magnifier
Bowled Over By a Sound Wave
How Do You Know If a Spider is Dead?
Degradable Plastics
A Molecular Soccer Match
Conversation at a Crowded Party
Blood-letting
Good Science, Bad Results
Tickling the Funny Bone
Putting South on Top
Learning to Talk
Baby's First Steps
Packaging for the Birds
The Roots of "Algebra"
Morality and Nutrition
Moral Fiber in Whole Wheat Bread
What Temperature Boils Down To
The Fable of Centrifugal Force
Savoring the Aroma
Salting Your Food
Why Human Milk Is Low in Iron
Radiation, a Word of Many Meanings
Babies on Treadmills
A Ticklish Question
Bicycles, Footballs, and Space Shuttles
The Shape of a Raindrop
Rings of Light
Making Water in the Desert
Cracks at Right Angles
Pouring Coffee on a Plane
Using Purple Cabbage As a pH Indicator
Cooking with Alloys
The Legacy of the Dodo
The Musical Bean
Benjamin Franklin Drops a Dollar
From One Cell to Many
Cologne and the Blue Sky
Father Determines Sex
The Monarch Butterfly's Poison Pill
Animal or Plant?
Approaching the Dew Point
You Can't Heat an ice Cube
Measuring Altitude with a Thermometer
Relying on Bacteria
Invention of the Vacuum Cleaner
Water Is Hard to Heat
Humidity, Relative to What?
The "Weightlessness of Space"
The Mystery of Proteins
Who Can Drink Milk?
Reflections in the Water
Half Heads, Half Tails
Spiders Don't Get Caught in Their Own Webs
First Elementary particle
Pillbugs Live in Damp Places
Cloud Seeding
Radar
Coriolis Effect
Illusion in a Coffee Cup
Why Are Clouds White?
Dimples in Golfballs
Night Vision
Seeing Stars
Where Do All Those Calories Go?
Some Like It Hot
When You Eat an Egg Are You Eating a Baby Chick?
Flipping the Switch for Digestion
Healing Elbows and Eyeballs
Quicksand
Language Production and Speech Errors
Why is Teflon Slippery?
Your Genetic Cookbook
Number Crunching at the Electronic Feast
Hot and Cold Chirping Crickets
When a Boy's Voice Changes
How Dogs Eat
Biodiversity and Genetic Engineering
Why Ice Is Not Slippery
Fighting AIDS, Fighting Evolution
The Shape of Lightning Bolts
Bugs in Cake Mixes
Why It's Hard to Burn One Log
Mushrooms and Rocket Fuel
Where do the socks go?
DON GLASS is Special Projects Director at Indiana University's public radio station WFIU-FM and the radio producer of A Moment of Science.
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