The Book of General Ignorance by John Mitchinson PDF

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Author(s): John Mitchinson

Publisher: --

Category: Popular science

Date: 07.08.2007

Pages: 288

Language: English

ISBN-10: 307394913

ISBN-13: 9780307394910

Format: EPUB, MOBI

Book Description:

Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry VIII had six wives, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again. Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more, The Book of General Ignorance is a witty gotcha compendium of how little we actually know about anything. Itll have you scratching your head wondering why we even bother to go to school. Revealing the truth behind all the things we think we know but dont, this book leaves you dumbfounded about all the misinformation youve managed to collect during your life, and sets you up to win big should you ever be a contestant on Jeopardy! or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Besides righting the record on common (but wrong) myths like Captain Cook discovering Australia or Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone, The Book of General Ignorance also gives us the skinny on silly slipups to trot out at dinner parties (Cinderella wore fur, not glass, slippers and chicken tikka masala was invented in Scotland, not India). Thomas Edison said that we know less than one millionth of one percent about anything: this book makes us wonder if we know even that much. Youll be surprised at how much you dont know! Check out THE BOOK OF GENERAL IGNORANCE for more fun entries and complete answers to the following: How long can a chicken live without its head? About two years. What do chameleons do? They dont change color to match the background. Never have never will. Complete myth. Utter fabrication. Total Lie. They change color as a result of different emotional states. Who invented champagne? Not the French. How many legs does a centipede have? Not a hundred. How many toes has a two-toed sloth? Its either six or eight. How many penises does a European earwig have? a)Fourteen b)None at all c)Two (one for special occasions) d)Mind your own business Which animals are the best-endowed of all? Barnacles. These unassuming modest beasts have the longest penis relative to their size of any creature. They can be seven times longer than their body. What is a rhinos horn made from? A rhinoceros horn is not, as some people think, made out of hair. Who was the first American president? Peyton Randolph. What were George Washingtons false teeth made from? Mostly hippopotamus. What was James Bonds favorite drink? Not the vodka martini.

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Dinosaurs (1000 Facts on...) by Steve Parker PDF

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Author(s): Steve Parker

Publisher: Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd

Category: Popular science

Date: 01.06.2006

Pages: 224

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1842367706

ISBN-13: 9781842367704

Format: EPUB

Book Description:

The king of the dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus Rex, has long captured the imaginations of young paleontologists the world over. The cover of this stunning book, with its popping 3-D T. Rex grabs children s attention and draws them to the many other dinosaurs to be found within. And once the spiral-bound pages have been opened, young readers can discover full-color illustrations of dinosaur anatomy, environments, fossilized remains, and more. Zip pouches within protect two extra-large color posters and an easy-to-build dinosaur model. This ultimate guide to dinosaurs provides both educational instruction and exciting amusement for dinosaur enthusiasts of all stripes.

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Heating your home with wood (Popular science skill book) by Neil Soderstrom PDF

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Author(s): Neil Soderstrom

Publisher: Popular Science : [distributed by] Harper & Row

Category: Popular science

Date: 1978

Pages: 199

Language: English

ISBN-10: 60906499

ISBN-13: 9780060906498

Format: PDF

Book Description:

Nonfiction: home improvement.

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The Shroud of Turin: First Century after Christ! by Giulio Fanti PDF

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Author(s): Giulio Fanti

Publisher: --

Category: Popular science

Date: 10.06.2015

Pages: 450

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9814669121

ISBN-13: 9789814669122

Format: PDF

Book Description:

The Turin Shroud is the most important and studied relic in the world. Many papers on it have recently appeared in important scientific journals. Scientific studies on the relic until today fail to provide conclusive answers about the identity of the enveloped man and the dynamics regarding the image formation impressed therein. This book not only addresses these issues in a scientific and objective manner but also leads the reader through new search paths. It summarizes the results in a simple manner for the reader to comprehend easily. Many books on the theme have been already published, but none of them contains such a quantity of scientific news and reports. The most important of them is the following: the result of the 1988 radiocarbon dating is statistically wrong and other three new dating methods demonstrate that the Shroud has an age compatible with the epoch in which Jesus Christ lived in Palestine. A numismatic analysis performed on Byzantine gold coins confirms this result. This book is, therefore, very important with respect to the Turin Shroud. It is unique in its genre and a very useful tool for those who want to study the subject deeply.

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Drinking Water: Physics, Chemistry and Biology by Vladyslav V. Goncharuk PDF

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Author(s): Vladyslav V. Goncharuk

Publisher: --

Category: Popular science

Date: 11.07.2014

Pages: 426

Language: English

ISBN-10: 3319043331

ISBN-13: 9783319043333

Format: pdf

Book Description:

This book takes a broad and eclectic view of the water that all humanity depends upon, probing its role in human life and in the history of our planet, as well as surveying the latest scientific understanding of purification techniques and standards for the protection of water quality. The volume opens with a chapter on the role of drinking water in human life, which discusses the planets water resources, the quality of drinking water, water and health, the advent of water quality standards, Green chemistry and more. The chapter concludes by discussing the relationship of the biosphere and human civilization. Chapter Two explores the unique properties of water, the role of water in the scenario of development on Earth. Also covered is the current understanding of the importance of the isotopic composition of water, in particular the ratio of protium to deuterium, which is fundamental to life. The third chapter is devoted to Water Clusters, examining the structure, properties and formation of clusters. Also covered here is theoretical research on the interaction of water clusters with ozone, the impact of temperature on water clusters and more. Chapter Four is devoted to drinking water and factors affecting its quality. Discussion includes ecological and hygienic classification of centralized drinking water supply sources, water quality requirements, and problems and potentialities of drinking water preparation. The author introduces a new concept for supplying the population with high-quality drinking water. The fifth chapter examines the peculiarities and problems of water decontamination, with sections on chlorination, ozonation, the bactericidal effects of ultrasound and ultraviolet rays and more. Chapter Six offers a thorough exploration of the theory, means and methods of bio testing as an evaluation method for the quality of drinking water. The final chapter discusses new state standards for drinking water, as well as requirements and methods of quality control. The concluding selection relates the urgent need to measure, evaluate and protect the quality of drinking water and describes a new state standard of drinking water quality.

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New and improved C-4: better-than-ever recipes for half the money and double the fun by Ragnar Benson PDF

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Author(s): Ragnar Benson

Publisher: --

Category: Popular science

Date: 2013

Pages: 80

Language: English

ISBN-10: 873648390

ISBN-13: --

Format: PDF

Book Description:

This book is for all those readers of the original Homemade C-4 who wrote to ask for alternatives that eliminated the need for costly, hard-to-find ingredients, especially nitromethane. These recipes are dirt-simple feature widely found, inexpensive, unregulated chemicals and can be assembled in no time. For academic study only.

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Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Applications (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) by Luis Enrique Sucar PDF

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Author(s): Luis Enrique Sucar

Publisher: --

Category: Popular science

Date: 18.07.2015

Pages: 253

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1447166981

ISBN-13: 9781447166986

Format: EPUB/AZW3/PDF

Book Description:

This accessible text/reference provides a general introduction to probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) from an engineering perspective. The book covers the fundamentals for each of the main classes of PGMs, including representation, inference and learning principles, and reviews real-world applications for each type of model. These applications are drawn from a broad range of disciplines, highlighting the many uses of Bayesian classifiers, hidden Markov models, Bayesian networks, dynamic and temporal Bayesian networks, Markov random fields, influence diagrams, and Markov decision processes. Features: presents a unified framework encompassing all of the main classes of PGMs describes the practical application of the different techniques examines the latest developments in the field, covering multidimensional Bayesian classifiers, relational graphical models and causal models provides exercises, suggestions for further reading, and ideas for research or programming projects at the end of each chapter.

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