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But did you know that the key to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos is as close as the nearest toaster? In Storm in a Teacup, Helen Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking ordinary objects and occurrences, like popcorn popping, coffee stains, and fridge magnets, to big ideas like climate change, the energy crisis, or innovative medical testing.
#HELEN CZERSKI STORM IN A TEACUP ZIPPYSHARE FULL#
Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. Thanks to Helen's brilliantly engaging book you'll never consider anything to be mundane or ordinary again."A physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial. The written equivalent of a spectrum beaming out from a prism. Helen Czerski has a remarkable knack for finding scientific wonders under every rock, alongside every raindrop, and inside every grain of sand. has a formidable knack for explaining mind-bending concepts in easy-to-understand language.
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In a friendly, chatty style that includes anecdotes from her personal and professional life, Czerski manages to make spilled coffee fascinating tree growth astonishing telecommunications intuitive. Hers if the kind of self-assured, endearing nerdishness that doesn't wait to see if you're on board: she pulls you along, anticipating your head-scratching at every fluorescing scorpion and swirling drop of milk in your teacup.
The little fascinations we left behind in childhood are but her jumping-off points for the really, really big picture. Helen Czerski's absorbing Storm in a Teacup stands head and shoulders above other popular science books. It's a wonderful way to discover the hidden scientific connections behind the ordinary and everyday. Helen invites you in to see the world through a her eyes and understand how a physicist thinks. This book is charming, accessible and enthusiastic. Helen Czerski's book does just that.įun, fascinating and brilliantly well written - 'Right there, in my teacup, I can see the storm.' Me too and I know what it is now. It is rare that someone can explain that which seems endlessly complex and makes you feel like in fact you'd understood it all along. It'll carry you gently to the peak and show you how stunning and beautiful the view is. If you've ever felt like understanding how things work is just too big a mountain to climb then read this book. It is also physics as the toy box of science: physics as fun, as never before. This is physics as the toolbox of science - a toolbox we need in order to make sense of what is around us and arrive at decisions about the future, from medical advances to solving our future energy needs. Each chapter begins with something small - popcorn, coffee stains and refrigerator magnets - and uses it to explain some of the most important science and technology of our time. In Storm in a Teacup, Helen Czerski links the little things we see every day with the big world we live in. Look down on the Earth from space, and you'll find similar swirls in the clouds, made where warm air and cold air waltz. If you pour milk into your tea and give it a stir, you'll see a swirl, a spiral of two fluids, before the two liquids mix completely. Czerski's enthusiasm is infectious because she brings our humdrum everyday world to life, showing us that it is just as fascinating as anything that can be seen by the Hubble Telescope or created at the Large Hadron Collider.' - Jim Al-Khalili 'A quite delightful book on the joys, and universality, of physics.
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