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Want to learn how to mummify a hot dog? Break secret codes? Launch a rocket? Detect counterfeit money? Build a motor? From physics to forensics, from the hugest clouds to the tiniest ants, from Isaac Newton to elephant dung, Exploratopia overflows with things you can explore using the simplest everyday objects. Everywhere you look, everywhere you go, you can make discoveries, figure out how the world works, unearth secrets that everyone else overlooks. Exploratopia shows you how. It not only explains the ideas and background behind each exploration, it helps you figure out why something is the way it is and how to take an experiment into new and different directions, adding creativity to science and perception to fact. Open this book and Explore-you'll be surprised at what you discover about yourself and the amazing world around you. Book jacket.Murphy, Pat is the author of 'Exploratopia ' with ISBN 9780316612814 and ISBN 0316612812.
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