Storm in a Teacup by Helen Czerski
$7.99
Storm in a Teacup
- The Physics of Everyday Life
- By: Helen Czerski
- Narrated by: Chloe Massey
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Categories: Science & Engineering
Publisher's Summary
Just as Freakonomics brought economics to life, so Storm in a Teacup brings physics into our daily lives and makes it fascinating.
What is it that helps both scorpions and cyclists to survive? What do raw eggs and gyroscopes have in common? And why does it matter?
In an age of string theory, fluid dynamics and biophysics, it can seem as if the science of our world is for only specialists and academics. Not so, insists Helen Czerski - and in this sparkling new audiobook she explores the patterns and connections that illustrate the grandest theories in the smallest everyday objects and experiences.
Linking what makes popcorn pop to Antarctic winds, coffee stains to blood tests, and ketchup bottles to aliens in space, every thread you pull in the fabric of everyday life shows you something new about the intricate patterns of our world.
Listen to Storm in a Teacup, and you will see and understand the world as you never did before.
©2016 Helen Czerski (P)2016 Random House Audiobooks
Tony John Henderson
A non-fiction narrative.
This is the story of our windows to the universe and our “things” that help us live. It is an explainer of Physics told as a story and not as an equation. Helen Czerski has done a superb job here – and the reader has done grand work too. Highly recommended.
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