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You'll look at your living room a whole new way
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The Secret House: The Extraordinary Science of an Ordinary Day
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The author of E=mc2 presents in accessible language a tour of an everyday home and the science surrounding it, from radio static and pillow mites to the electric fields of a light bulb and the colors in a garden rose. Reprint.
272 pages, Paperback
First published June 26,1986
This edition
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272 pages, Paperback
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March 4, 2003 by Berkley
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9780425188422
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0425188426
- Language
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English
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David Bodanis' latest book THE ART OF FAIRNESS: THE POWER OF DECENCY IN A WORLD TURNED MEAN was published November 2020 and asks the question that has long fascinated David: Can you succeed without being a terrible person? The answer is 'Yes, but you need skill', and the book shows how. I demonstrate those insights through a series of biographies…
David Bodanis is the bestselling author of THE SECRET HOUSE and E=MC2, which was turned into a PBS documentary and a Southbank Award-winning ballet at Sadler's Wells. David also wrote ELECTRIC UNIVERSE, which won the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize, and PASSIONATE MINDS, a BBC Book of the Week. Then a return to Einstein and the struggles he went through with EINSTEIN'S GREATEST MISTAKE which was named ‘Science Book of the Year' by the Sunday Times, and also widely translated.
David has worked for the Royal Dutch Shell Scenario Prediction unit and the World Economic Forum. He has been a popular speaker at TED conferences and at Davos. His work has been published in the Financial Times, the Guardian, and the New York Times, and has appeared on Newsnight, Start the Week, and other programs. When not slumped in front of a laptop, he has been known to attempt kickboxing, with highly variable results.
David Bodanis is the bestselling author of THE SECRET HOUSE and E=MC2, which was turned into a PBS documentary and a Southbank Award-winning ballet at Sadler's Wells. David also wrote ELECTRIC UNIVERSE, which won the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize, and PASSIONATE MINDS, a BBC Book of the Week. Then a return to Einstein and the struggles he went through with EINSTEIN'S GREATEST MISTAKE which was named ‘Science Book of the Year' by the Sunday Times, and also widely translated.
David has worked for the Royal Dutch Shell Scenario Prediction unit and the World Economic Forum. He has been a popular speaker at TED conferences and at Davos. His work has been published in the Financial Times, the Guardian, and the New York Times, and has appeared on Newsnight, Start the Week, and other programs. When not slumped in front of a laptop, he has been known to attempt kickboxing, with highly variable results.
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Some interesting things are explored in this book and a lot can be learned. However, I sense the author is purposely trying to gross the reader out with choosing the absolute worst possible cases (not all ice cream is made purely from fat with no dairy products, etc.). His pretentious writing style and pathetic attempts at wit nearly made me give up on this book. It would have been so much more readable if it avoided uselessly fluffy and sometimes plain odd descriptions: ""...your favourite show characters would be but horribly disfigured fragments strewn across the screen, as if the results of an industrial accident, ..., Sue Ellen's twitching face comes on, lifeless, alone; each in isolation, glowing for an awful moment out of the void."" Oh please. I found the author insulted my intelligence and I will be staying away from him in the future.
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The age of this book shows in some of the language. Still, much good information was shared in an interesting way.
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After reading this, I realized the amount of microscopic detail that we ignore in our everyday life is just overwhelming..
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Don't read this book if you have OCD. And even if you're borderline, don't! This book will likely be the one that will drive you over the edge. This book is jampacked with lots of interesting info, both vital and trivial. That said, I skipped quite a few pages. But I am, most definitely, more germ-conscious now. It will change the way you live at least by a bit, and there's nothing wrong with that. Not when you have read the book and know what I know now.
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Read this book twice now and I love the narrative that is woven with science and some history. Not for the super squeamish but fascinating. Great way to look at the world and a great and entertaining science read. Great for anyone interested in science.
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A classic that makes you think about the complexity of reality.
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Super interesting, but if you have any phobias or get squeamish easily you might want to skip this one. Sometimes ignorance is bliss!
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