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Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!
The Science Museum Book of Scary Things (and ways to avoid them)
2009
EN
In Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off! Glenn Murphy shows us that it is okay to be scared.Natural disasters, predators, spiders, disease, needles, dentists, ghosts, darkness, speaking in public . . . there are things all around us that make us scared. Glenn Murphy is here to show us how much of that fear is perhaps unnecessary.Includes:Examples of common fearsHilarious true-life storiesThe psychology of fear
How Loud Can You Burp?
And Other Extremely Important Questions (and Answers) from the Science Museum
2010
EN
How Loud Can You Burp? is a doodle-filled book of fun questions and answers from the author of the bestselling Why is Snot Green?Find out the answers to lots of hilarious questions, including:Could we use animal poo to make electricity?Why is water wet, and is anything wetter than water?What's the deadliest disease in the world?What are clouds for?What's the difference between a brain and a computer?...
Why is Snot Green?
And Other Extremely Important Questions (and Answers) from the Science Museum
2011
EN
Why is snot green? Do rabbits fart? What is space made of? Where does all the water go at low tide? Can animals talk? What are scabs for? Will computers ever be cleverer than people?Discover the answers to these and an awful lot of other brilliant questions frequently asked at the Science Museum in this wonderfully funny and informative book by Glenn Murphy.Divided into five sections, which cover everything from the Big Bang to bodily functions to cool gadg...
2011
EN
What happens in your head during a headache? What are toes for?Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers these and lots of other brilliant questions in Brains, Bodies, Guts and Stuff. This fact-filled book explores everything from cells to organs, from breathing to blood-flow, from scabs and rashes to broken bones and brainpower. It will tell you everything you ever needed to know about bodies and all the amazing things that go on in the...
Poo! What IS That Smell?
Everything You Need to Know About the Five Senses
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- Science Sorted
2013
EN
Which animal has the biggest eyes? What's inside your ear-holes? Why do sweaty socks smell so stinky?Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers these and a lot of other brilliant questions about the five senses in this funny and informative book.Packed with doodles and information about all sorts of incredible smelly things, like why sprouts and ice cream taste so different. Poo! What IS That Smell? contains absolutely no boring b...
2011
EN
It's a BIG universe out there, and there's loads of stuff we don't know about it yet. But what we do know is pretty cool!Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers lots of brilliant space questions in Space, Black Holes and Stuff. This book has loads of information on all sorts of brilliant things like black holes, planets, solar flares and red dwarfs, with no boring bits!Discover more funny science with Robots and the Whole T...
Olympic Sport: The Whole Muscle-Flexing Story
100% Unofficial
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- Science Sorted
2016
EN
Are Olympic athletes born stronger and faster than the rest of us? Why do tennis rackets have strings? How do gymnasts balance on their hands? Why do hurdlers do the splits when they jump?Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers these and lots of other brilliant questions in Olympic Sport: The Whole Muscle-Flexing Story, a fascinating book about the science of sport.From running a marathon to beating your friends at basketball o...
Does Farting Make You Faster?
And Other Incredibly Important Questions and Answers about Sport from the Science Museum
2012
EN
Why don’t hammer-throwers get dizzy? Could the world’s fastest swimmer catch a jet-ski? How far can a human being run or cycle before they drop? Which nutter invented the ski jump?Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers these and other brilliant questions in How Loud Can You Burp?, a fascinating book about the science of sport.From running a marathon to beating your friends at basketball, from negotiating a snowboard slalom tra...
2011
EN
What's inside a laptop? How can you stuff 1,000 CDs into an mp3 player? Who built the Internet? How smart is the world's smartest robot? How do smartphones and TV remote controls work?Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers these and lots of other brilliant technology questions in Robots, Chips and Techno Stuff. This fact-filled book is packed to capacity with megabytes of marvellous information, exploring everything from the first sim...
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- Science Sorted
2014
EN
What happens in your head during a headache? What are toes for? Why are some farts eggier than others?Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers these and a lot of other brilliant questions in this funny and informative book.Bodies: The Whole Blood-Pumping Story is packed with doodles and information about all sorts of incredible things, from scabs, cells and broken bones to brainpower, bacteria and deadly diseases, this book cont...
Will Farts Destroy the Planet?
and other extremely important questions (and answers) about climate change from the Science Museum
2011
EN
How will climate change affect our future world? Will forests turn to deserts? Will whole cities sink beneath the waves? Will we swim to school, and take speedboats to work? Will coal, oil, and cow farts destroy the planet?! Err…no. Probably not.But the world will change, and our future lives will change along with it. In this amazing book, Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, takes you on a time-travelling trip to the year 2050, to answer all your ...
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- Science Sorted
2014
EN
What’s worse than finding a maggot in your apple? Which smells worse: a rotten egg or a rotten leg? What are sick and poo made of?Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, explains how being revolted (and sometimes being revolting) can be both brilliantly beneficial and stupendously silly in this fantastically informative book.Packed with illustrations, photographs, information and jokes about all sorts of disgusting things, from bugs, bacteria a...