Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #769245 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Review
"You should not study bluffing in science on a train or bus if laughing out loud in public embarrasses you. "
--"The Journal of the British Astronomical Association"
"Never again will you be silenced in the pub by the bore who knows all about Einstein. Instead you can enthral dinner party guests by dropping into casual conversation stories which reveal your deep scientific knowledge. Like, for example, the fact that the standard unit of force, the Newton, is about the force required to lift the average apple.
This little paperback also gives you the low-down on the famous people of science. Now you can tell your friends that Newton was so bad-tempered that he once threatened to incinerate his mother and stepfather. And Sir Peter Medawar, who won a Nobel prize in 1960 for his work on immunology, wrote an autobiography called Memoir of a Thinking Radish... "
--"Evening Echo "