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    Dr. Joe and What You Didn't Know: 177 Fascinating Questions about the Chemistry of Everyday Life
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    Dr. Joe and What You Didn't Know: 177 Fascinating Questions about the Chemistry of Everyday Life
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    Dr. Joe and What You Didn't Know: 177 Fascinating Questions about the Chemistry of Everyday Life

    By Dr. Joe Schwarcz

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    With creativity and verve, Dr. Joe Schwarcz answers your burning questions about science and life in these digestible and accessible short essays

    Dr. Joe and What You Didn’t Know acts as both the source and satiation of scientific curiosity through a series of 177 chemistry-related questions and answers designed to both inform and entertain. From the esoteric to the everyday, the topics Dr. Joe Schwarcz tackles range from Beethoven’s connection to plumbing to why rotten eggs smell like rotten eggs.

    How did a sheep, a duck, and a rooster usher in the age of air travel? What does Miss Piggy have to do with the World Cup? And is there really any danger in eating green potatoes? The answers to these whimsical questions and more are revealed in this collection in an accessible scientific fashion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW Press
    Release dateOct 31, 2003
    ISBN9781554905386
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    Dr. Joe and What You Didn't Know: 177 Fascinating Questions about the Chemistry of Everyday Life
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    Dr. Joe Schwarcz

    Dr. Joe Schwarcz is the author of That’s the Way the Cookie Crumbles, The Genie in the Bottle, Radar, Hula Hoops and Playful Pigs, Dr. Joe and What You Didn't Know, The Fly in the Ointment, and Let Them Eat Flax!. He is a regular on the Discovery Channel, the recipient of the 2003 Independent Publishers Book Award, and the winner of the American Chemical Society’s Stack-Grady Award for interpreting science to the public.

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      Joe Schwarcz is the director of McGill University's Office for Science and Society, and he also hosts a popular radio show in Canada, in which he answers questions about science he has posed to his listeners. "Dr. Joe and What You Didn't Know" is the fourth in a series of books in which his answers are compiled. (The previous three have also been Hal's Picks.) Professor Schwarcz found that, at the time this book was being compiled, the quality of the answers his listeners were providing indicated that they had suddenly become more science-literate. This coincided with the availability of Internet search engines such as Google. Of course, he was asking his questions of the collective wisdom of the Internet, rather than his listeners. Consequently, he began to construct the questions in a way not conducive to Google searches. For example, he might ask "What common metal was once more valuable than gold?", rather than "Why did aluminum fall a hundred times in value during the 19th century?" His books are very attractive to me, both as a chemist interested in science in everyday life and as a teacher of chemistry. Like Hal's Picks, Professor Schwarcz does not limit himself exclusively to chemical topics, but his little essays consistently bring the insights of a chemist to the question at hand, and he does not hesitate to get into the chemical details of an answer that are necessary for a proper explanation. I still wish that he would include a few molecular structures in his books, and I ought to compile my own list of essays that would enhance the courses I teach, so that I would not neglect to bring them up when they fit.