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The Universe through a keyhole: 30 Ways Science Proves Your Intuition Wrong 🔍
Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry
Bantam Press, London, UK, 2021
English [en] · EPUB · 7.1MB · 2021 · 📘 Book (non-fiction) · 🚀/lgli/lgrs/nexusstc/zlib · Save
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Reality Is Not What It Appears To Be. Our Intuition Routinely Lets Us Down. Nothing Is Quite What It Seems. We See The Universe Through A Keyhole. Hannah Fry And Adam Rutherford Have Spent Years Wrestling, Debating And Solving Some Of The World's Greatest Scientific Conundrums. In This Exclusive Book, They Share The Tales That Offer Answers To Questions That At First Seem Utterly Baffling: - What Is A Thought? - What Is Déjà Vu? - What Shape Is The Universe? - Why Do My Headphones Always Get Tangled? - Why Isn’t My Leg Hair As Long As My Head Hair? This Is Not A Book Of Trivia. It’s A Collection Of Stories – Illustrated Tales Of How And Why We Know The Things We Know. Drawing Upon Their Vast Experience And Expert Knowledge, Rutherford And Fry Satisfy Our Childlike Curiosity For The World By Revealing The Secrets Of Universe. In Their Inimitable Style, They Will Lead You, The Curios, Deep Down Into The Wormholes Of Science, History And Philosophy And – Maybe – Out The Other Side.
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Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything: New from the Stars of BBC Radio 4
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Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) - n
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Rutherford & Fry's complete (short) guide to absolutely everything
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UNTITLED RUTHERFORD & FRY BOOK
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Rutherford, Adam, Fry, Hannah
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ADAM FRY, HANNAH RUTHERFORD
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Transworld Publishers Limited
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Transworld Digital
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BBC Physical Audio
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BBC Digital Audio
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Random House UK
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BBC Large Print
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United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
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Place of publication not identified, 2019
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2020
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Explores just about every area of life' DAILY MAIL
'If only Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry were on tap to all of us, all the time . . . The pair have such a gift for making life, numbers and the forces at work in the universe all the richer, stranger, funnier and more marvellous.' Stephen Fry
In Rutherford and Fry's comprehensive guidebook, they tell the complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it - skipping over some of the boring parts .
This is a celebration of the weirdness of the cosmos, the strangeness of humans and the fact that amid all the mess, we can somehow make sense of life.
Our brains have evolved to tell us all sorts of things that feel intuitively right but just aren't true: the world looks flat, the stars seem fixed in the heavenly firmament, a day is 24 hours... This book is crammed full of tales of how stuff really works. With the power of science, Rutherford and Fry show us how to bypass our monkey-brains, taking us on a journey from the origin of time and space, via planets, galaxies, evolution, the dinosaurs, all the way into our minds, and wrestling with some truly head-scratching questions that only science can answer:
What is time, and where does it come from?
Why are animals the size and shape they are?
How horoscopes work ( Spoiler : they don't, but you think they do)
Does my dog love me?
Why nothing is truly round ?
Do you need your eyes to see?
'A wonderfully engaging blend of wit, enthusiasm, clarity and knowledge.' Bill Bryson
'Like the universe itself, this book is multi-faceted, surprising and full of wonders. It's also funny, wise and exceedingly brainy. You really owe it to yourself to read it.' Tim Harford, author of How To Make The World Add Up
'Explores just about every area of life' DAILY MAIL
'If only Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry were on tap to all of us, all the time . . . The pair have such a gift for making life, numbers and the forces at work in the universe all the richer, stranger, funnier and more marvellous.' Stephen Fry
In Rutherford and Fry's comprehensive guidebook, they tell the complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it - skipping over some of the boring parts .
This is a celebration of the weirdness of the cosmos, the strangeness of humans and the fact that amid all the mess, we can somehow make sense of life.
Our brains have evolved to tell us all sorts of things that feel intuitively right but just aren't true: the world looks flat, the stars seem fixed in the heavenly firmament, a day is 24 hours... This book is crammed full of tales of how stuff really works. With the power of science, Rutherford and Fry show us how to bypass our monkey-brains, taking us on a journey from the origin of time and space, via planets, galaxies, evolution, the dinosaurs, all the way into our minds, and wrestling with some truly head-scratching questions that only science can answer:
What is time, and where does it come from?
Why are animals the size and shape they are?
How horoscopes work ( Spoiler : they don't, but you think they do)
Does my dog love me?
Why nothing is truly round ?
Do you need your eyes to see?
'A wonderfully engaging blend of wit, enthusiasm, clarity and knowledge.' Bill Bryson
'Like the universe itself, this book is multi-faceted, surprising and full of wonders. It's also funny, wise and exceedingly brainy. You really owe it to yourself to read it.' Tim Harford, author of How To Make The World Add Up
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