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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...

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Mick O'Hare is the production editor of New Scientist and the editor of the international bestsellers Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? He lives in London. New Scientist is the bestselling and fastest growing science magazine in the world.

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HOW TO FOSSILIZE YOUR HAMSTER (Chapter One)1 In the Kitchen

Plastic Milk

Can you make plastic in your kitchen?

You would imagine that you'd need some pretty noxious, smelly chemicals to make plastic, but you can actually find the things you need to make malleable, doughy pieces of it in your own home. Instead of putting vinegar on some fish and chips and crying over your...

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  • Publication date2008
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  • ISBN 13 9780805087703
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