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If you could bring back one living being from the whole of the history of time, what would you choose? Comedian and former stem-cell biologist ...
Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre
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'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates
'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman
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Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal ...
From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
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Ever look at the sky and wonder what makes it so blue? Or watch shadows shrink and grow as the day goes on? Find out ...
William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear - that they ...
Good science writing makes us feel. It makes us delight in the discovery of a black hole munching on a star, laugh at the image ...
The second compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the ...
An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius- not since Albert Einstein has a scientific figure held such a position ...
It's good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it's much more interesting to know what they do. Richard ...
A fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries ...
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'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where ...
'What Fauber does well is humanize these four residents of the pantheon of science... The story is seldom less than fascinating. A readable, enjoyable contribution ...
For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one ...
