TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kruszelnicki,Karl
AU  - Costabel,Pilar
AU  - Reidy,Lisa
TI  - Dr Karl's random road trip through science
SN  - 9780733340321 (paperback)
U1  - 500 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Sydney
PB  - ABC Books
KW  - Discoveries in science
KW  - Curiosities and wonders
KW  - Science
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Experiments
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - Australian
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Why is wombat poo cube-shaped? -- Closest Planet to Earth - and the winner is... -- Genetic testing saves babies -- How do birds sleep? -- Ships & ocean-level rise -- Hole phobia? -- Big Brother internet? -- Coral spawning -- Tongue taste map -- Balloon popping -- Asteroid dodging -- Coming clean on clothes -- Why elephants don't get more cancers -- Cannibalism - a nutritious dining option? -- Barcode invention -- Alkaline diet -- Fat birds -- Pregnancy double whammy -- Fire in the snow-incinerating toilet -- Spaghetti snapping -- Vaping & e-cigarettes - the old bait-and-switch -- A2 vs A1 milk -- Kiss the sun -- Do fish drink water? -- Human faults -- Missing mass of an atom -- Rogue planets
N2  - In this, his 45th book, Dr Karl goes full kolour, with brilliant and funny illustrations to match his dress sense. So take a technikolour trip through science with the intrepid Dr Karl, Australia's favourite science guru. Q: HOW MANY DR KARL BOOKS ARE THERE IN THE UNIVERSE? A: MORE THAN A MILLION! Dr Karl is on a mission to track down Awe and Wonder in the Universe. Why do wombats poo cubes? What nearly destroyed humanity on Halloween 2015? How do you use an incinerating toilet? Find out why we've sent a spacecraft with Dr Karl's name on it to kiss the Sun, whether cannibalism is nutritious, and the answer to the Biggeset Question of All - why does spaghetti always break into three pieces? Plus a whole lot more. So strap in and get ready for a random ride through the Universe. Who knows where you'll end up!
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