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We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe by Marcus Chown
Category: Science
Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there is furnace at a temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Your TV tells you that the universe had a beginning. ...Show more
What a Wonderful World: Life, the Universe and Everything in a Nutshell by Marcus Chown
Category: Science
Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather than nothing? In ...Show more
What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff by Marcus Chown
Category: Science
Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather than nothing? In ...Show more
What a Wonderful World - One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff by Marcus Chown
Category: Popular Science
Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather than nothing? In ...Show more