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Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries

ISBN13: 9780137057382
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â€œDr. Seethaler has written an excellent book for any interested student of science. She answers great questions about the world around us in this fascinating book. As a high school science teacher, I encounter many of these from my own students. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who has pondered questions starting with â€˜how,â€™ â€˜what,â€™ or â€˜why.â€™â€

â€"Ernest James Lo, Science Teacher, Woodside High School, Woodside, CA

Prepare to Be Fascinated!

Why does the flu change every year?

Â Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ What makes glue sticky?

Â Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ What causes out-of-body experiences?

Â Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Are all brands of gas the same?

Â Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Will adult stem cells work as well as embryonic stem cells?

Â Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Is one â€œhorsepowerâ€ really equal to the power of one horse?

Â Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Why canâ€™t you sneeze with your eyes open?

Â Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ How much does a cremated body weigh?

These are just a few of the fascinating science and health questions real people have asked top science writer and San Diego Union-TribuneÂ columnist Sherry Seethaler. Curious Folks Ask brings together 162 of her best answersâ€"all crystal-clear, accurate, quick, and a pleasure to read.Â Seethaler is one of this generationâ€™s best science explainers, and it shows: Every answer is accurate, fun to read, and distilled to a single page or less! Want to know how canned air worksâ€¦or nuclear bombs? What causes goose bumps, earwax, dandruff, headaches? Whether itâ€™s healthy to crack your knuckles, drink decaf, eat chocolate? What it costs to run all those LED lights around your house? Itâ€™s all hereâ€"and a whole lot more!

Your bodyâ€™s oddities: knees to knuckles, itches to sneezes
Surprising facts about how your body grows and works
Our ingenious inventions
The past, present, and future of our relentless human inventiveness
Pesky pathogens: viruses, bacteria, and prions
How they keep outsmarting us, and why itâ€™s so hard to stay healthy
Common chemical concoctions
The science behind the everyday products that have transformed our lives
Uniquely human: how we got here,Â how weâ€™re unique
New lessons from genetics, archaeology, and evolutionary biology

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Shaken (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mysteries)

Since her debut in Whiskey Sour, Lieutenant Jacqueline â€œJackâ€ Daniels has dealt with her fair share of criminals. But she may have finally met her match in â€œMr. K,â€ the brutal serial killer who has eluded Jack not once, but twice, over the years. Mr. K is the essence of evil, credited with more than two hundred horrific homicides. Now, on a hot August night, Jack finally gets the chance to face the maniacâ€"unfortunately, she must do so while bound and gagged in a storage locker, primed to be his next victim. As she awaits her fate, Jack looks back on her career, from her first homicide case to her recent retirement. The twenty-five years in between saw Jackâ€™s attitude toward justice, the law, her job, and her personal life shift drastically. She is a different woman nowâ€¦but is she good enough to stop a madman? Novelist J. A. Konrathâ€™s trademark blend of suspense and wry humor are on full display in this tense thriller, a gripping tale that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.Amazon Exclusive: Tess Gerritsen Reviews Shaken

Tess Gerritsen is a physician and an internationally bestselling author. She gained nationwide acclaim for her first novel of medical suspense, the New York Times bestseller Harvest. She is also the author of the bestsellers Ice Cold, The Keepsake, The Bone Garden, The Mephisto Club, and more. Read her exclusive guest review of J.A. Konrath's Shaken:

J.A. Konrath achieves the stupendous feat of blending both a prequel and a sequel in this timeline-hopping thriller, expertly making the pieces click together like an intricate Swiss watch.

Over the course of her decades-long career, Detective Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels has pursued her own great white whale: a sickeningly twisted serial killer named Mr. K. Years ago, Jack came heartbreakingly close to catching him, but he managed to slip away. Now Mr. K is back from her nightmares, and she's his captive, in a secret place where she's beyond rescue. Bound and gagged, the clock ticking down till zero, Jack faces a death more excruciating than anyone's worst imaginings. She has seen Mr. K.'s other victims, so she knows how terrible her end will be.

In flashback, we see just how Jack ended up at this moment in her life. From her first exposure as a rookie to Mr. K's handiwork, through her career-long pursuit of her nemesis, we watch Jack grow as a cop, as a woman, and as a friend to her two eccentric colleagues, Harry and Herb. That journey is both terrifying and wildly hilarious, a wacky combination that only a writer as good as Konrath can pull off. Throw in a deeply moving denouement, and you have a story that hits every single mark.

The pace is frantic, the horrors truly horrifying, and the dialogue will have you laughing out loud even as you're gripping the pages in terror. Konrath is so good, he makes other novelists jealous--and count me as one of them.

Five very enthusiastic stars out of five. --Tess Gerritsen

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