How To Fossilise Your Hamster (and Other Amazing Experiments For The Armchair Scientist)

Have you ever wondered how to • Weight your own head? • Tell if a martini has been shaken, not stirred? • Extract the iron from breakfast cereal? • Make eggs go green? • Measure the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave? This brilliantly wide-ranging collection of do-it-yourself experiments from Mick O’Hare and New Scientist magazine - designed to be done at home or nearby, using everyday household items - effortlessly displays scientific principles in action, and is guaranteed to amaze, inform and delight. The eagerly awaited companion to the bestselling Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? is a dazzling mix of wit, explanation and insight into the world around us. It will bring out the scientist in everyone. About Author: Mick O’Hare wears one hat as production editor for New Scientist and another as editor of The Last Word column of questions and answers at the back of the magazine. In this latter guise he edited Profile’s recent bestselling book ‘Does Anything Eat Wasps?’ and its successor ‘Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?’. He has a geology degree but retains a healthy disregard for crystallography.