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Australia's favourite scientist's twenty-sixth book!
'What are the facts Again and again and again - what are the facts Shun wishful thinking ... avoid opinion ... facts are your single clue. Get the facts!'- time Enough for Love, Robert Heinlein Does eating celery make you lighter Do you have to be dying to have a near-death experience Is a yawn a silent, natural scream for air; and if a little oxygen is good for you is more oxygen better Can the humble spud kill Did Galileo drop his balls from the Leaning tower of Pisa Did a NASA computer really prove a miracle in the Bible actually happened Is there any substance harder than diamond, and do diamonds really last forever And exactly how many Eskimo words for 'snow' are thereWherever he goes, people always ask Dr Karl to explain stuff, and in this his 26th book (26 is the only number directly between a square and a cube), he explains more myths and curly questions.Visit Dr Karl at www.drkarl.com

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Dr Karl Kruszelnicki AM just loves science to pieces, and has been spreading the word in print, on TV and radio and online for more than thirty years. The author of 47 books, Dr Karl is a lifetime student with degrees in physics and mathematics, biomedical engineering, medicine and surgery. He has worked as a physicist, labourer, roadie for bands, car mechanic, filmmaker, biomedical engineer, taxi driver, TV weatherman, and medical doctor at the Children's Hospital in Sydney. Since 1995, Dr Karl has been the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the University of Sydney. In 2019 he was awarded the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularisation of Science, of which previous recipients include Margaret Mead, David Attenborough, Bertrand Russell and David Suzuki.