The Science Magpie
A Miscellany of Paradoxes, Explications, Lists, Lives and Ephemera from the Wonderful World of Science
Published on 4. October 2012
288 pages
978-1-84831-431-3 (ISBN)
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From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities.
Expand your knowledge as you view the history of the Earth on the face of a clock, tremble at the power of the Richter scale and learn how to measure the speed of light in your kitchen.
Skip through time with Darwin's note on the pros and cons of marriage, take part in an 1858 Cambridge exam, meet the African schoolboy with a scientific puzzle named after him and much more.
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Simon Flynn
The Science Magpie
A hoard of fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes, plucked from science and its history
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10/2012
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Simon Flynn was a publisher and is now training as science teacher. He has degrees in Chemistry and Philosophy.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 'HYMN TO SCIENCE'
- HOW DO THEY DO IT?
- THE SCIENTIST
- VALUE JUDGEMENTS
- THE TRUE MEASURE OF THINGS (PART 1)
- AS EASY AS Al, Be, Cs
- THE SQUARE OF SCIENTIFIC DELIGHTS
- VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF OCKHAM'S RAZOR
- NAME THAT NUMBER
- THE 'GREATEST EQUATION EVER'
- TO MARRY OR NOT TO MARRY, THAT IS THE QUESTION
- 'A CHEMIC UNION'
- BINARY BASICS
- THE ENERGY OF RICHTER
- SCIENCE'S MOLECULE OF THE YEAR/BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR AWARD
- GEOLOGICAL TIME PIECE
- 'TWIN LIMB-LIKE BASALT COLUMNS'
- MNEMONIC FOR REMEMBERING THE GEOLOGICAL TIMESCALE
- 'MOSQUITO DAY'
- THE ETYMOLOGY AND SCRABBLE SCORE OF SOME COMMON SCIENTIFIC WORDS
- TAKING ACID
- A GOOD INDICATOR OF .
- I HOLY SEE THE ERROR OF MY WAYS
- RABBIT, RABBIT, RABBIT-RABBIT, RABBIT-RABBIT-RABBIT, RABBIT-RABBIT-RABBIT-RABBIT-RABBIT
- BAN DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE!
- SOLAR ECLIPSES GALORE
- 'A REMARKABLE BOOK, SURE TO MAKE A MIGHTY STIR'
- 'THE FOUR STAGES OF PUBLIC OPINION'
- 'ENDLESS FORMS MOST BEAUTIFUL'
- ARE YOU CLEVERER THAN A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD . FROM 1858?
- BY DEGREES
- BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
- THREATENED SPECIES
- THE BIG FIVE
- THE LAST 500 MILLION YEAR EVOLUTION OF VERTEBRATES
- THE TORINO IMPACT HAZARD SCALE
- THE $10 MILLION BOOK
- THE POETS' SCIENTIST
- WHEN LEFT CAN BE RIGHT AND RIGHT CAN BE WRONG
- THE SCIENTIFIC EQUIVALENT OF: HAVE YOU READ A WORK OF SHAKESPEARE'S?
- YOU CAN'T WIN, YOU KNOW
- THE MPEMBA EFFECT
- MAXWELL'S DEMON
- HOTTER THAN HELL
- ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE
- 'THE CHEMICAL HISTORY OF THE CANDLE'
- WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT'S IN YOUR GENES, SIZE ISN'T EVERYTHING
- WOULD YOU ADAM AND EVE IT?
- EUCLID'S ALGORITHM
- THE PERIODIC SNAIL
- MAKING THE STANDARD MODEL
- THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER RAP
- THE RELATIVE HARDNESS OF BEING
- YOUR READING LIST FOR THIS WEEK IS .
- WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF?
- WHY IS THE SKY DARK AT NIGHT?
- UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW
- THE NEW ATLANTIS
- A PLURALITY OF WORLDS IN EVERY EARRING
- A LAW BY ANY OTHER NAME .
- JUST NOT MY CUP OF TEA
- A PRIME DETERMINER
- FOR GOODNESS SAKE, SHOW YOUR WORKING
- 'THE DEGREE OF OPACITY'
- REAL MOLECULES WITH SILLY NAMES
- THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
- BRITAIN'S FIRST PROFESSIONAL FEMALE SCIENTIST
- THE BIRTH OF THE QUANTUM
- THE DEFINITION OF A PLANET
- THE INTERSTELLAR PIONEER
- THE TRUE MEASURE OF THINGS (PART 2)
- NATURE AND NURTURE
- ONE CLEAR, UNCHANGED, AND UNIVERSAL LIGHT
- ANOTHER HUE UNTO THE RAINBOW
- ON A NEW KIND OF RAY
- CENTENARY ICONS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- MEASURING THE SPEED OF LIGHT USING CHOCOLATE, A MICROWAVE AND A RULER
- 'SPACE SHIFTED ABOUT LIKE A SWAN THAT CAN'T SETTLE'
- RELATIVELY SPEAKING
- ROYAL SOCIETY PRIZE FOR SCIENCE BOOKS
- THE BOOK THAT CAUSED A PARADIGM SHIFT
- PRACTICAL POLITICS
- TYPES OF IONISING RADIATION
- THE DOSE MAKES THE POISON
- TO DECAY WITH PRECISION
- GOING NUCLEAR IN A SPORTS HALL
- AN UNHOLY TRINITY
- IN COLD BLOOD
- MORE THAN THE GERM OF AN IDEA
- A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ATOM
- WOULD THE REAL SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT PLEASE STAND UP
- TO A MEASURABLE INFINITY AND BEYOND
- TRUTH TO THEIR FICTIONS
- THE LIFE OF p
- A SLICE OF INDIANA p
- MEET TOM TELESCOPE AND FRIENDS
- THE SINS OF NEWTON
- MENDEL'S LAW OF SEGREGATION
- THE MONKEY TRIAL
- THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS
- FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE . WE HAVE LIFT-OFF
- BLOWING HOT AND COLD
- 'THERE IS MORE TO SEEING THAN MEETS THE EYEBALL'
- CONCEDING TO THE LAWS OF METRE
- FIRST, DO NO HARM
- THE SIZE AND GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION
- TOP OF THE POP-SCI CHART
- A PARTY OF FAMOUS PHYSICISTS
- AN UNACKNOWLEDGED DEBT
- ELEMENTS OF COLOUR
- CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'VE WON A .
- THE TEN GREATEST EVER EQUATIONS . ACCORDING TO NICARAGUA
- IS HELL EXOTHERMIC OR ENDOTHERMIC?
- GREAT SCIENTISTS BY NATION
- 'SUCCESSIVE GENERATIONS BLOOM'
- IT HAS BEEN LONG KNOWN THAT .
- WHAT IF EARTH CAN CLOTHE AND FEED AMPLEST MILLIONS AT THEIR NEED
- APPENDIX: BACK TO SCHOOL
- DOUBLE SCIENCE
- CHEMISTRY IS FULL OF BAD JOKES BECAUSE ALL THE BEST ARGON
- CELL-U-LIKE
- WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
- BY A FORCE OF NATURE
- PERMISSIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- About the Author
- Copyright
