Why Don't Spiders Stick to Their Webs?

Name: Why Don't Spiders Stick to Their Webs?
Brand: Oneworld Publications
SKU: 9781851689002
Price: 13.99 EUR
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Robert Matthews

Why can't we tickle ourselves? Which properties give you the best chance of winning Monopoly? What would happen if you fell into a black hole? Is it possible to hurt your brain if you think too much? In this entertaining and enlightening tour of day-to-day life, award-winning writer and scientist Robert Matthews tackles everything from the puzzling maths of odd socks to the real 'string theory' mystery: how does string acquire all those unwanted knots?

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Weight: 272g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 01 Oct 2011
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Publication City/Country: GB
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781851689002

About Robert Matthews

US: Robert Matthews is a visiting lecturer in science at Aston University, in Birmingham, England. He has published pioneering research in fields ranging from code-breaking to predicting coincidences, and won the internationally renowned Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for his studies of Murphy’s Law, including the reason why toast so often lands butter-side down. An award-winning science writer, he has contributed to many newspapers and magazines world-wide, and is currently science consultant for Focus magazine, a flagship BBC publication. His book 25 Big Ideas: The Science that’s Changing our World (9781851683918) is also published by Oneworld.