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How to make a tornado: The strange and wonderful things that happen when scientists break free

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Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we don't often hear about because they are so specialised, or turn out to be dead ends. Yet researchers have given hallucinogenic drugs to blind people (seriously), tried to weigh the soul as it departs the body and planned to blast a new Panama Canal with atomic weapons. Real scientific breakthroughs sometimes come out of the most surprising and unpromising work. How to Make a Tornado is about the marg.

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500 OHA h

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London : Profile Books., 2009

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219 p.

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English

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9781846683527

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500

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Science - Experiments - Humor
Science - Humor

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