Working with his remarkable invention, the Flowform, Wilkes has uncovered many hidden secrets of water, and also created an artform of great beauty.
We're barraged with statistics every day about health risks, life expectancy, and the chances of success, but to most of us all these numbers and percentages mean very little. This book presents a tour of statistics and explains how statistics work.
Statistician Bart Holland takes readers on a tour of the world of probability. Weaving together tales from real life he shows examples of probability in action - everyday events that can profoundly affect our lives but are controlled by just one number.
An exploration of the murky world of fake science and pseudo-history: fields that generally rely on lost continents, ancient super-civilizations, conspiratorial cover-ups, preternaturally daring and undocumented discoveries, and even vast Satan-inspired plots to offer an alternative version of the past.
This work takes readers on a tour of the objects in their lives, from the origins of tupperware to the construction and engineering principles behind the bra. Gadgets, tools, implements, appliances and odds and ends are investigated in an accessible and entertaining style.
Improved technology is teaching us more about the weather all the time and with new knowledge comes new concerns and confusion. Is global warming real? What is a NEXRAD Doppler? This title provides the answers to these questions and more, along with illustrations, photographs, trivia and graphics.
The history of science is littered with mad, bad and delightfully dotty inventions, from the bicycle that relied for its momentum on the rider waggling his head back and forth to the Improved Pneumatic Advertising Hat - a bowler that hurled a lit-up billboard into the air at the touch of a button. This book presents science's strangest inventions.