Who Was Albert Einstein? The Science Behind the Hair
Everybody can do the hair. Almost nobody can tell you what the man actually worked out. This book gets closer to that than its cover suggests, and it is honest...
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Whale Done: Why a Dead Whale Explodes
A dead whale is a sealed container full of bacteria that have not stopped working. Everything else about the opening of this book follows from that one sentence.
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Tyrannosaurus Wrecks: Nobody Ever Watched a T. rex
Every single fact about a T. rex is an inference. Nobody watched one. That is the idea hiding inside a stolen skull mystery, and it is bigger than the dinosaur.
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Poached: Why a Koala Is Worth Stealing
Nobody steals a koala because koalas are lovely. Somebody steals one because almost nobody on earth can keep one alive, and difficulty is a price.
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Panda-Monium: Nobody Actually Owns a Panda
The truck backs in, the doors come open, and the crate is empty. Everything that happens after that is driven by what a panda is worth, which turns out to...
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Lion Down: How an Animal Gets Convicted
A big cat gets blamed for a killing it did not do, and the machinery that decides what happens to it next has almost nothing to do with biology.
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