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There Are (No) Stupid Questions … in Science
- Author
- Leah Elson
- Narrator
- Leah Elson
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 27 June 2023
- Run Time
- 5 hours 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Leah Elson draws upon her wildly popular web series, 60 Seconds of Science, in this highly entertaining and visually appealing giftable book of real-world scientific questions and answers.
How does DNA work?Does chicken noodle soup actually help with being sick?When cats purr, what is actually making the noise?Does singing to plants really help them grow?Is it possible to clone a woolly mammoth?
In the vein of Randall Munroe’s What If? and perfect for readers of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Leah Elson’s There Are No Stupid Questions … in Science covers biology, chemistry, physics, human physiology, and space—providing easy-to-understand, delightfully cheeky answers to over one hundred common questions, from the age-old, to the ridiculous, to the sublime.
“Science can be wonderfully silly, occasionally bizarre, but always awe-inspiring.”—Leah Elson
Critics Review
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“What I’m loving about this book…is that it has a very user-friendly vibe. It’s the opposite of a heavy, dense scientific manuscript.”
Talk Nerdy podcast
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“How [Leah] approaches this with such passion and conviction is just really amazing.”
STEAM Powered podcast
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“[Leah] gets it. She gets the idea that people need to understand this stuff.”
Ignorance Was Bliss podcast
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Details
- Author
- Leah Elson
- Narrator
- Leah Elson
- Duration
- 5 hours 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 June 2023
- ISBN
- 9798200860326
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Trivia and quiz questions, Science: general issues, Chemistry, Biology, life sciences, Physics, Space science, Human biology, Anatomy, Physiology
Synopsis
Leah Elson draws upon her wildly popular web series, 60 Seconds of Science, for an irreverent debut that answers all sorts of scientific questions—from the age-old to the ridiculous to the sublime—posed by her fans around the world.There Are (No) Stupid Questions … in Science was born from Leah’s popular web series, 60 Seconds of Science, wherein her avid followers, from all around the world, suggest topics to be explained within sixty seconds.In the vein of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and The Complete Manual of Things That Might Kill You: A Guide to Self-Diagnosis for Hypochondriacs by Jen Bilik, There Are (No) Stupid Questions … in Science provides easy-to-understand and delightfully cheeky explanations for scientific and medical quandaries, and is appropriate for everyone from those with no prior scientific knowledge to colleagues in the scientific field.
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