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The salmon cannon and the levitating frog and other serious discoveries of silly science
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Why would anyone research how elephants pee? Or study worms who tie themselves into a communal knot? Or quantify the squishability of a cockroach? It all sounds pointless, silly, or even disgusting. Maybe it is. But in this book, Carly Anne York shows how unappreciated, overlooked, and simply curiosity-driven science has led to breakthroughs big and small.
- Genres
- Science
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- ISBN
- 9781399817011
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