How to Make a Tornado: The strange and wonderful things that happen when scientists break freeScience tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we don't often hear about because they are so specialised, or turn out to be dead ends. Yet researchers have given hallucinogenic drugs to blind people (seriously), tried to weigh the soul as it departs the body and planned to blast a new Panama Canal with atomic weapons. |
Contents
Mad research | |
The yuck factor | |
Death doctors and the human body | |
Blunders big and small | |
Love sex and all that stuff | |
Animals and their | |
The world looked different back then | |
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How to Make a Tornado: The Strange and Wonderful Things that Happen when ... Mick O'Hare No preview available - 2009 |
How to Make a Tornado: The strange and wonderful things that happen when ... New Scientist No preview available - 2016 |