Product Description: Winner of the IgNobel Prize in physics and the 2004 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, Len Fisher showed just how much fun science can be in his enthusiastically praised debut, How to Dunk a Doughnut. In this new work, he reveals that science sometimes takes a path through the ridiculous and the bizarre to discover that Nature often simply does not follow common sense...read more

Product Description: An entertaining and thought-provoking foray into the science of the bizarre, the peculiar, and the downright nutty!

Product Description: Scientists are in the business of trying to understand the world. Exploring commonplace phenomena, they have uncovered some of nature’s deepest laws. We can in turn apply these laws to our own lives, to better grasp and enhance our performance in daily activities as varied as cooking, home improvement, sports—even dunking a doughnut! This book makes the science of the familiar a key to opening the door for those who want to know what scientists do, why they do it, and how they go about it...read more

Product Description: Why do certain civilizations, societies, and ecosystems collapse? How does the domino effect relate to the credit crunch? When can mathematics help explain marriage? And how on earth do toads predict earthquakes? The future is uncertain...read more

Product Description: Una alucinante galería de experimentos que se alzan contra el sentido común dominante, aunque con dispares resultados: desde el doctor que pesaba a los pacientes moribundos justo antes y después del fallecimiento para determinar el peso exacto del alma hasta el cálculo de las dimensiones del infierno por parte de Galileo...read more

Product Description: Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of game theory has helped biologists to understand the evolution of cooperation in nature, and investigates how we might apply those lessons to our own society...read more

Product Description: «Una mina de deliciosas excentricidades.»Financial Times MagazineEn este original libro sembrado de curiosidades científicas, Len Fisher expone con su desenfado habitual un variado catálogo de arriesgados experimentos científicos cuyo denominador común fue alzarse contra la lógica establecida por las sociedades en que naci...read more

The author of How to Dunk a Doughnut continues his accessible explanations of scientific principles using humorous personal stories, everyday life examples, and offbeat experiments, in a volume that covers such topics as the discovery of electricity, the structure of DNA, and the invention of computers. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Reveals the scientific principles behind familiar objects and activities, rendering the scientific process accessible through explanations of how such activities as shopping, boiling an egg, throwing a boomerang, and sports are connected to key scientific questions. Reprint.

Product Description: ¿Qué leyes científicas nos permiten funcionar en nuestra vida cotidiana?. Siguiendo el curso de un día cualquiera en la vida de una persona, el autor -científico de amplia trayectoria- nos señala los fenómenos que a diario se basan en leyes que desconocemos: calentar la leche, mojar una galleta, tomar una copa, darse un baÃ...read more