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" Discover's 20 things you didn't know about everything : "
by the editors of Discover magazine.
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BL
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988344
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b742714
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Discover's 20 things you didn't know about everything : : duct tape, airport security, your body, sex in space ... and more! /\ by the editors of Discover magazine.
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New York :: HarperCollins Publishers,, ©2008.
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vii, 322 pages ;; 22 cm
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0061435643
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: 9780061435645
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| Contents
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Airport security -- Aliens -- Ancient weapons -- Bees -- Birth -- Your body -- Death -- Duct tape -- Germs -- The Internet -- Meteors -- Milk -- Mosquitoes -- Obesity -- Rats -- Sex in space -- Sleep -- Space disasters -- Sperm banks -- Weather.
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A compilation of topics culled from Discover magazine's popular column is augmented by background material and illuminates a variety of scientific interests, from meteors and lab accidents to bees and caffeine.
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Curiosities and wonders.
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Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.
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Science, Miscellanea.
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Curiosities and wonders.
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Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.
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Science.
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001.9
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AG243.D578 2008
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Discover's twenty things you didn't know about everything
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