This fact packed book has more authors that you can shake a stick at as it's a compilation of sciency tweets that populated the twitterverse earlier this year.
A group of scienceophiles from Dublin hit upon the idea of setting twitter the daily challenge of spouting forth its favourite science facts on a given subject. And so spring 2012 was filled with the daily onslaught of a fascinating and heady mixture of jokes, quotes and quips (all in under 140 characters). Subjects ranged from maths (A googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros. 1 followed by googol zeros is a googolplex. Google's headquarters is the googleplex) to magnetism (Pigeons navigate using magnetoception via a mineral embedded in their brains called magnetite) from the particle physics (There are 6 types of quarks, known as flavours: up, down, strange, charm, bottom and top) to poetry (Darwin spoke of evolution, And brought with it revolution, Wallace, too, found the solution, We must not forget his contribution).
The result is a wonderful book (and I'm proud to have contributed to it) from which anyone and everyone can learn a thing or 2 (thousand).
If I didn't have a copy already I'd defiantly be asking for one in my stocking.
And best of all, the royalties go to the cystic fibrosis research.
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