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1) Eight Preposterous Propositions: From the Genetics of Homosexuality to the Benefits of Global Warming

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Ehrlich, Robert

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Robert Ehrlich is Professor of Physics at George Mason University and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is the author of twenty books, including Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few Might Even Be True, Why Toast Lands Jelly-Side Down, and Turning the World Inside Out & 174 Other Simple Physics Demonstrations (all Princeton). Placebo cures. Global warming. Extraterrestrial life. Psychokinesis. In a time when scientific claims can sound...

2) The cosmological milkshake: a semi-serious look at the size of things

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Ehrlich, Robert, 1938

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Bite-sized essays and zany cartoons about the sizes of things in the universe--how big, how far, how fast, how hot.

3) What if?: mind-boggling science questions for kids

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Ehrlich, Robert, 1938

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English

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Questions and answers explore the earth, weather and climate, forces and energy, plants and animals, and other scientific subjects.

4) Turning the world inside out and 174 other simple physics demonstrations

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Ehrlich, Robert, 1938

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English