How to Fossilise Your Hamster: And 99 Other Experiments to Try at Home |
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Mick O'Hare
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Pages: 256 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1846680441
Pub: Profile
Pub date: 2007-10-04
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7
Reader Reviews:
Thinking outside the frame (17/19 people found this helpful)
There are wonderful ideas in this book to stimulate all of us. Curiosity keeps us going, though we need some practical abilities.
Thanks to Lucy's review, I looked at Peter Cave's CAN A ROBOT BE HUMAN? collection of philosophy puzzles. Lucy is right. That also should make anyone think and more deeply - and be amused - for like Hamster it covers a whole range of fascinating topics...but with the Robot book you don't have to risk getting wet, you can lie in bed or sit in the armchair, with a drink, and be a philosopher...thinking some unthinkables. Hamster and Robot excellent combination.
Beat those Christmas Blues! (24/28 people found this helpful)
Great experiments but if you want to really get the old- and young- grey cells working then I suggest pairing it with "Can a Robot be Human - 33 Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles" by Peter Cave. The two together should see most families through the Christmas boredom!
FANTASTIC FAMILY FUN (27/33 people found this helpful)
Armed only with kitchen equipment, some magnets and this book, my seven year old daughter and I have spent many happy hours exploring physics and making a huge mess. The instructions are entertaining while being very easy to follow and HOW TO FOSSILISE YOUR HAMSTER is full of brilliant suggestions of how to have fun and learn something along the way.
Hands-On At Last (32/40 people found this helpful)
If you were turned off by New Scientist's earlier books of Questions and Answers, and want something a bit more involved, this is the book you need. All of the wit and invention that you'd come to expect from O'Hare and NS, but wrapped up in a great collection of experiments that are brilliantly simple, easy to demonstrate and sure to delight people of all ages.
Great value, great fun, and with Winter drawing in it's not a bad purchase for rainy-day science.
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