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| How to Fossilize Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments for the Armchair Scientist
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Author: Mick O'Hare
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Release Date: 2008-01-22
Reading Level: Young Adult
ISBN-10: 0805087702
ISBN-13: 9780805087703
List Price: $14.00
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Outrageously entertaining and educational experiments from the team behind the phenomenal international bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps? How can you measure the speed of light with a bar of chocolate and a microwave oven? To keep a banana from decaying, are you better off rubbing it with lemon juice or refrigerating it? How can you figure out how much your head weighs? Mick O’Hare, who created the New Scientist’s popular science sensations Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?, has the answers.
In this fascinating and irresistible new book, O’Hare and the New Scientist team guide you through one hundred intriguing experiments that show essential scientific principles (and human curiosity) in action. Explaining everything from the unusual chemical reaction between Mentos and cola that provokes a geyser to the geological conditions necessary to preserve a family pet for eternity, How to Fossilize Your Hamster is fun, hands-on science that everyone will want to try at home.
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| Customer Rating: | It was a very mean thing to title the book, "How to Fossilize your Hamster" and then tell us to bury the dead hamster and wait eons. . . My children wanted this book because of the title and that's the first page we turned to. [we do have a pet cemetery' in our back yard that they were ready to excavate] I have seen experiments with bones before, so it did not seem way out there. This was a total disappointment. While its a cute gimmick, a 'non-experiment' should not be the title for a book of experiments. I thumbed through the book and felt it had the same unthinking attitude through out. There are so many better experiment books out. . .
deborah |
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| Customer Rating: | About: New Scientist writer O'Hare provides instructions explains a multitude of science experiments that can easily be done at home.
Pros: Very interesting, varied topics and experiments. Written in easy-to-understand language. My favorite topics included the best ways to get ketchup out of a bottle, how to test if talking on a cell phone affects your reaction time (it does), why hot water freezes faster than cold water, why your vision is blurry underwater, how to extract iron from cereal and DNA from yourself. Apparently, Alka-Seltzer can be used for several cool experiments.
Cons: No sources cited. A further reading section would've been nice |
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