Why is Snot Green?: And Other Extremely Important Questions (and Answers) from the Science Museum
Language: English
Published by Pan Macmillan, 2014
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A fun, doodle-filled reworking of Why is Snot Green? by the acclaimed Glenn Murphy.
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- Title
- Why is Snot Green?: And Other Extremely Important Questions (and Answers) from the Science Museum
- Author
- Glenn Murphy
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1447273028
- ISBN 13
- 9781447273028
Why is snot green? Do rabbits fart? What is space made of? Where does all the water go at low tide? Can animals talk? What are scabs for? Will computers ever be cleverer than people?
Discover the answers to these and an awful lot of other brilliant questions frequently asked at the Science Museum in this wonderfully funny and informative book by Glenn Murphy.
Divided into five sections, which cover everything from the Big Bang to bodily functions and cool gadgets:
- Lost in Space
- The Angry Planet
- Animal Answers
- Being Human
- Fantastic Futures
Packed with doodles and information about all sorts of incredible things, and published in association with the Science Museum, this book contains absolutely no boring bits!
Discover more funny science with Disgusting Science: A Revolting Look at What Makes Things Gross.
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About the Author
GLENN MURPHYwrote his first book,Why Is Snot Green?, while working at the Science Museum, London. Since then he has written around twenty popular-science titles aimed at kids and teens, including the bestsellingHow Loud Can You Burp?andSpace: The Whole Whizz-Bang Story. His books are read by brainy children, parents and teachers worldwide, and have been translated into Dutch, German, Spanish, Turkish, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indonesian. Which is kind of awesome. In 2007 he moved to the United States and began writing full-time, which explains why he now says things like "kind of awesome". These days he lives in sunny, leafy North Carolina - with his wife Heather, his son Sean, and twounfeasiblylarge felines.
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