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"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet-from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu-on a five-star scale. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully...
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2022.
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224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm.
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A guide to the world's most amazing and awesome wonders features stunning photos and incredible information that reveal the truth, history, and scientific explanation behind all that's wow-worthy in our universe.
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[2016].
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127 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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"How do refrigerators stay cold? How does water come out of the faucet? Answers to these questions and many more will help parents move beyond the stock answer "because" and give level-appropriate, fascinating, true answers. More than 300 photos bring a child's world to life while satisfying kids' curiosity and sense of fun. Questions in each chapter encourage interactivity, and parent tips extend the experience of the book."--
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Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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2019.
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For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. Munroe has created a guide to the third kind of approach. He provides highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. In exploring the absurd, he opens up an understanding to the science and technology underlying the things we do every day. -- adapted from...
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[2018]
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215 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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What happens when you burp in space? Can you comb a hairy doughnut? Is the platypus even a real animal? Join us for a mind-boggling look at the record-breaking world around us. From the science of slam dunks and the smelliest substances to over-engineered inventions and the physics of cats, you'll find page after page of amazing--and downright unbelievable--facts. Plus: do try this at home. Have a go at 10 record-breaking experiments that will blow...
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[2022]
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340 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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The Highlights Book of How is the essential book of curiosity and wonder, integrating STEM content, experiments, and activities. This companion to the Highlights Book of Things to Do provides dozens of ways for kids age seven and up to explore and create while deepening their understanding of science. This highly visual, hands-on book showcases kids' science questions (many of which were sent to Highlights magazine by real readers), along with answers...
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