Experiments Projects category: 574 books
Elemental
How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
If you want to understand how our world works, the periodic table holds the answers. When the seventh row of the periodic table of elements was completed in June 2016 with the addition of four final elements—nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson—we at last could identify all the ingredients...
Artificial Intelligence
Building Smarter Machines
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In 2011 a computer named Watson outscored two human competitors on the TV quiz show Jeopardy! and snagged the million-dollar prize. Watson isn't the only machine keeping up with humans. The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is booming, with drones, robots, and computers handling tasks that once...
Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction 3
Build Siege Weapons of the Dark Ages
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Utilizing easy-to-find and inexpensive materials, this handy resource teaches desktop warriors how to build a multitude of medieval siege weapons for the modern era. Novice combatants will learn to build 35 defense weapons, including a marshmallow catapult, a chopstick bow, a bottle cap crossbow,...
A World in a Drop of Water
Exploring with a Microscope
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Within every drop of pond water lurks an invisible world, alive with an amazing variety of microscopic animals. And with the help of this book and a microscope, you can bring these tiny creatures into focus and discover the ways in which they live.
You'll trace the path of a blob-like amoeba as it...
Eat Your Science Homework
Recipes for Inquiring Minds
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Hungry readers discover delicious and distinct recipes in this witty companion to Eat Your Math Homework*.*
Beginning with an overview of the scientific method and a primer in lab (sorry, kitchen) safety, this light-hearted cookbook will inspire a hunger for knowledge! A main text explains...
The Knowledge Web
From Electronic Agents to Stonehenge and Back -- A
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In The Knowledge Web, James Burke, the bestselling author and host of television's Connections series, takes us on a fascinating tour through the interlocking threads of knowledge running through Western history. Displaying mesmerizing flights of fancy, he shows how seemingly unrelated ideas and innovations...
Mars One
Humanity's Next Great Adventure: Inside the First Human Settlement on Mars
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Will we one day walk on Mars? A book that “will feed the imagination of anyone with an interest in space or the future of humanity on other worlds” (Foreword Reviews).
In 2011, Mars One announced its intentions to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars beginning as early as 2024....
This is Improbable Too
Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors and More WTF Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Marc Abrahams collects the odd, the imaginative, and the brilliantly improbable from around the world. Here he investigates research on the ins and outs of the very improbable evolutionary innovation that is the human body (brain included). This Is Improbable Too explores the odd questions that researchers...
Jetpack Dreams
One Man's Up and Down (But Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Jetpack Dreams chronicles the colorful pop history and science of that most amazing and mysterious of machines: the jetpack. Fueled by a fascination and lifelong obsession with the power of flight, journalist Mac Montandon goes on a vastly entertaining search of the elusive invention. He examines...
by Chong Xie
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
There is a question that arises in our consciousness: is it really genes or biomechanics that make us different from the widely sought after and famous athletes whose performances are not only awe inspiring but almost seem "out of this world" magical? Keeping this million-dollar question...
by Christian Bök
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Internationally best-sellling poet Christian Bök has spent more than ten years writing what promises to be the first example of 'living poetry.' After successfully demonstrating his concept in a colony of E. coli, Bök is on the verge of enciphering a beautiful, anomalous poem into the genome of...
by Torrey Maloof
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
People experience extreme weather all over the world every day. From blizzards that pack cities with snow to thunderstorms that create terrifying tornadoes, this wild weather can be very dangerous and people must learn to be well prepared when it strikes! Teach students about meteorologists, the Fujita...
Canadian Failures
Stories of Building Toward Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017
Successful Canadians write about failure, and how it got them where they are today.
What does it mean to fail? To some of the most successful Canadians, it was a rite of passage, a stepping stone to greater things, or even a brilliant source of inspiration....
by Santosh Jha
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Non-Fiction: Empowering Consciousness, Life-Living Wellness, Personal Excellence.
Wellness is a function of wider poise of person and personality, which includes factors not only material but also emotional. A person is in complete wellness when there is an overall poise between the cognitive factors...