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Informationen zum Autor DON GLASS is Special Projects Director at public radio station WFIU-FM and the radio producer of A Moment of Science. PAUL SINGH was Professor of Physics at Indiana University and the science producer of A Moment of Science until his retirement in 1992. STEPHEN FENTRESS is a writer who was most recently Producer/Music Director at the Strasenburgh Planetarium of the Rochester (N.Y.) Museum and Science Center, where he wrote and produced planetarium shows. Klappentext DON GLASS is Special Projects Director at public radio station WFIU-FM and the radio producer of A Moment of Science. PAUL SINGH was Professor of Physics at Indiana University and the science producer of A Moment of Science until his retirement in 1992. STEPHEN FENTRESS is a writer who was most recently Producer/Music Director at the Strasenburgh Planetarium of the Rochester (N.Y.) Museum and Science Center, where he wrote and produced planetarium shows. Inhaltsverzeichnis Sample ContentsBenjamin Franklin and the Swatches on the Snow Once You've Had It, You Can't Catch It Again Why Is the Sky Blue? Static Electricity Why One Rotten Apple Can Spoil the Barrel Superconductors Does Smoking Cause Lung Cancer? What Is a Gene? Why Do Cats' Eyes Glow at Night? Paul Ehrlich, Dyes, and Drugs Why You Can Never Get to the End of the Rainbow The Difference between a Square and a Diamond Sounds over a Lake at Evening Do the Best Dogs Come from the Pound? Flip a Coin, Beat the Odds Stroboscopic Stagecoach Wheels Why Are Bells Made of Metal? Why Rivers Don't Flow in a Straight Line What's Your Average Speed? The Basic Unit of Life How Aspirin Got Its Name Cold Water at the Bottom of a Lake Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men? A Thirty Percent Chance of Rain Limeys How Does Lung Cancer Start? The Light of Spring Vitamines and Vitamins Colors and Their Opposites How Does the World Look to a Bee? Death of the Dinosaurs: A Quick Review Why Do We Put Cut Flowers in Water? Life without Zero Prostaglandins Sweetened Condensed Milk What the Weather Report Doesn't Tell You Why Mowing the Lawn Doesn't Kill the Grass Galileo's Job Application The Consequences of Smallness Ozone and Ice Benjamin Franklin's Madeira Wine Surprise Viruses Attack Bacteria The Birth of the Atomic Age Honest Answers to Personal Questions Risk Assessment Broken Symmetry: Cosmetic or Cosmic? Antimatter Does Nature Abhor a Vacuum? How Does Water Get to the Top of a Tree? What Could Change Earth's Climate? Death of the Dinosaurs Revisited How Many Girls, How Many Boys? Modern Biology in a Monastery Garden Neutrinos and the End of the Universe Cooking an Egg The Most Important Fly in the History of Science How Plants Fight Sort Nuts by Shaking the Can Everybody Talks about Genes-But What Do They Do? How Cockraoches Get Away A New Person from a Nose? The Mysterious Number Pi Newton's Rainbow The Sweet Spot on a Baseball Bat Make an Image without a Lens Fluorescent Lamps Carbon Dating Soap Bubbles and Butterfly Wings Tracing the Roots of Energy Light Takes Time Read Fine Print through a Pinhole Infection: A Struggle between Two Organisms Why Doesn't a Pregnant Women Reject Her Fetus? The Floating Cork Trick Microbursts and Airplane Crashes What's inside an Atom? When Pop Bottles Don't Blow Up... and When They Do It's Not What You Hear-It's When You Hear It Weightless Water Getting Robbed in the Camera Obscura Sperm Meets Egg: What Really Happens The Curve of a Meandering River Why Chickens Don't Have Webbed Feet Our Most Distant Relatives...

List of contents

Sample Contents

Benjamin Franklin and the Swatches on the Snow

Once You've Had It, You Can't Catch It Again

Why Is the Sky Blue?

Static Electricity

Why One Rotten Apple Can Spoil the Barrel

Superconductors

Does Smoking Cause Lung Cancer?

What Is a Gene?

Why Do Cats' Eyes Glow at Night?

Paul Ehrlich, Dyes, and Drugs

Why You Can Never Get to the End of the Rainbow

The Difference between a Square and a Diamond

Sounds over a Lake at Evening

Do the Best Dogs Come from the Pound?

Flip a Coin, Beat the Odds

Stroboscopic Stagecoach Wheels

Why Are Bells Made of Metal?

Why Rivers Don't Flow in a Straight Line

What's Your Average Speed?

The Basic Unit of Life

How Aspirin Got Its Name

Cold Water at the Bottom of a Lake

Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men?

A Thirty Percent Chance of Rain

Limeys

How Does Lung Cancer Start?

The Light of Spring

Vitamines and Vitamins

Colors and Their Opposites

How Does the World Look to a Bee?

Death of the Dinosaurs: A Quick Review

Why Do We Put Cut Flowers in Water?

Life without Zero

Prostaglandins

Sweetened Condensed Milk

What the Weather Report Doesn't Tell You

Why Mowing the Lawn Doesn't Kill the Grass

Galileo's Job Application

The Consequences of Smallness

Ozone and Ice

Benjamin Franklin's Madeira Wine Surprise

Viruses Attack Bacteria

The Birth of the Atomic Age

Honest Answers to Personal Questions

Risk Assessment

Broken Symmetry: Cosmetic or Cosmic?

Antimatter

Does Nature Abhor a Vacuum?

How Does Water Get to the Top of a Tree?

What Could Change Earth's Climate?

Death of the Dinosaurs Revisited

How Many Girls, How Many Boys?

Modern Biology in a Monastery Garden

Neutrinos and the End of the Universe

Cooking an Egg

The Most Important Fly in the History of Science

How Plants Fight

Sort Nuts by Shaking the Can

Everybody Talks about Genes¿But What Do They Do?

How Cockraoches Get Away

A New Person from a Nose?

The Mysterious Number Pi

Newton's Rainbow

The Sweet Spot on a Baseball Bat

Make an Image without a Lens

Fluorescent Lamps

Carbon Dating

Soap Bubbles and Butterfly Wings

Tracing the Roots of Energy

Light Takes Time

Read Fine Print through a Pinhole

Infection: A Struggle between Two Organisms

Why Doesn't a Pregnant Women Reject Her Fetus?

The Floating Cork Trick

Microbursts and Airplane Crashes

What's inside an Atom?

When Pop Bottles Don't Blow Up... and When They Do

It's Not What You Hear¿It's When You Hear It

Weightless Water

Getting Robbed in the Camera Obscura

Sperm Meets Egg: What Really Happens

The Curve of a Meandering River

Why Chickens Don't Have Webbed Feet

Our Most Distant Relatives

About the author

DON GLASS is Special Projects Director at public radio station WFIU-FM and the radio producer of A Moment of Science. PAUL SINGH was Professor of Physics at Indiana University and the science producer of A Moment of Science until his retirement in 1992. STEPHEN FENTRESS is a writer who was most recently Producer/Music Director at the Strasenburgh Planetarium of the Rochester (N.Y.) Museum and Science Center, where he wrote and produced planetarium shows.

Product details

• Authors: Don Glass
• Assisted by: Edited by Don Glass (Editor), Don Glass (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 8
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.1993
• EAN: 9780253207807
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20780-7
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)