How to Fossilize Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments for the Armchair Scientist

by Mick O'Hare and New Scientist

Book Overview

Outrageously entertaining and educational experiments from the team behind the phenomenal international bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps? How can you measure the speed of light with a bar of chocolate and a microwave oven? To keep a banana from decaying, are you better off rubbing it with lemon juice or refrigerating it? How can you figure out how much your head weighs? Mick O'Hare, who created the New Scientist 's popular science sensations Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? , has the answers. In this fascinating and irresistible new book, O'Hare and the New Scientist team guide you through one hundred intriguing experiments that show essential scientific principles (and human curiosity) in action. Explaining everything from the unusual chemical reaction between Mentos and cola that provokes a geyser to the geological conditions necessary to preserve a family pet for eternity, How to Fossilize Your Hamster is fun, hands-on science that everyone will want to try at home. "...provides such entertaining tidbits and empirical knowledge, alongside hours of activities, in this volume of science experiments for adults." - Publishers Weekly

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805087702
• ISBN13: 9780805087703
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Holt McDougal
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic!

I loved this book so much I need to buy one to keep for generations. I hope I can have fun doing some of these experiments with my children and someday my grandchildren. Easily understood scientific concepts in a visual display. Excellent!

Interesting

About: New Scientist writer O'Hare provides instructions explains a multitude of science experiments that can easily be done at home. Pros: Very interesting, varied topics and experiments. Written in easy-to-understand language. My favorite topics included the best ways to get ketchup out of a bottle, how to test if talking on a cell phone affects your reaction time (it does), why hot water freezes faster than cold water, why your vision is blurry underwater, how to extract iron from cereal and DNA from yourself. Apparently, Alka-Seltzer can be used for several cool experiments. Cons: No sources cited. A further reading section would've been nice