Dr Karl's random road trip through science / Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki ; collages & illustrations by Pilar Costabel ; design by Lisa Reidy.

By: Kruszelnicki, Karl, 1948- [author.]Contributor(s): Costabel, Pilar [illustrator.] | Reidy, Lisa [book designer.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sydney : ABC Books, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 191 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: still image | still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780733340321 (paperback)Other title: Random road trip through science | Doctor Karl's random road trip through scienceSubject(s): Discoveries in science | Curiosities and wonders | Science -- Study and teaching -- Juvenile literature | Science -- Juvenile literature | Science -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature | Science -- Popular works | Science -- Miscellanea | AustralianDDC classification: 500
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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