Blue Genes and Polyester Plants: 365 More Suprising Scientific Facts, Breakthroughs, and Discoveries (Wiley popular science) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Blue Genes and Polyester Plants: 365 More Suprising Scientific Facts, Breakthroughs, and Discoveries (Wiley popular science) Book

Forthrightly frivolous, Blue Genes and Polyester Plants is a compendium of 365 science trivia questions (and answers). Here you will learn all manner of odd but intriguing statistics, from the amount of copper production worldwide that is attributed to a metal-eating microbe (25 percent) to the number of meteorites that explode in the upper atmosphere every year with the force of an atomic bomb (about 80). Even devout science buffs will find new material here, its appeal only slightly dampened by an occasional proclivity to sensationalism, as in the prediction that the year 2000 a computer bug will wreak widespread electronic havoc. Best of all, source material is listed for each fact, so when you stumble across a topic that interests you, finding more information is simplicity itself.Read More

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    What is the world's largest single-celled organism?

    What type of grass can support more weight per square inch than concrete?

    What male mammal makes breast milk?

    Why are dancing cockroaches so fascinating to mathematicians?

    Get ready to find out fascinating facts about everything from blue roses and deep earthquakes to singing sand dunes and ticking hourglasses. Blue Genes and Polyester Plants takes you on a lively tour of the universe's astonishing oddities and extremes. Based on cutting-edge scientific research, here are hundreds of juicy tidbits culled from every corner of science—including biology, medicine, engineering, technology, zoology, chemistry, and astronomy. This exciting overview of modern science is sure to inform, entertain, and astound.

  • 0471145750
  • 9780471145752
  • Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
  • 18 April 1997
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
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