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The flight of the iguana

David Quammen

1988

What Einstein Told His Cook

Robert L. Wolke

2002

I wonder why soap makes bubbles and other questions about science

Barbara Taylor

1994

This Explains Everything

John Brockman

2013

1227 Qi Facts To Blow Your Socks Off

John Lloyd, James Harkin, John Mitchinson

2012

Galileo's Gout

Gerald Weissmann

2007

Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?

New Scientist

2006 ★ 3.2

How Long is Now?

New Scientist

2016

Physics of the Impossible

Michio Kaku

2008 ★ 4.1

Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations

Isaac Asimov, Jason A. Shulman

1988

Mayonnaise and the origin of life

Harold J. Morowitz

1985

Imagined worlds

Freeman J. Dyson

1998

Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?

Martin Gardner

2000

This idea must die

John Brockman

2015

Naming Nature

Carol Kaesuk Yoon

2009

1,411 quite interesting facts to knock you sideways

John Lloyd, James Harkin, John Mitchinson

2014

1,234 Quite Interesting Facts to Leave You Speechless

John Lloyd, James Harkin, John Mitchinson

2015

Scientists and Scoundrels

Robert Silverberg

1965

AsapSCIENCE

Mitch Moffit

2015

The ingenious mind of nature

Hall, George M.

1997

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Ralph Leighton, Richard Phillips Feynman

1988 ★ 3.9

365 surprising scientific facts, breakthroughs, and discoveries

Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

1994

Serendipity

Royston M. Roberts

1989

Everyday Science Experiments in the Kitchen (Hartzog, Daniel.)

John Daniel Hartzog

2000

Billions and billions

Carl Sagan

1997 ★ 3.8

Cranks, quarks, and the cosmos

Jeremy Bernstein

1993

Elephants on acid

Alex Boese

2007

The Borderlands of Science

Michael Shermer

2001

The Ig Nobel Prizes 2

Marc Abrahams

2005

Discover's 20 things you didn't know about everything

2008

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