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Start giftingThere Are (No) Stupid Questions … in Science
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Learn moreLeah Elson draws upon her wildly popular web series, 60 Seconds of Science, in this highly entertaining and visually appealing giftable book of real-world scientific questions and answers.
How does DNA work?Does chicken noodle soup actually help with being sick?When cats purr, what is actually making the noise?Does singing to plants really help them grow?Is it possible to clone a woolly mammoth?
In the vein of Randall Munroe’s What If? and perfect for readers of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Leah Elson’s There Are No Stupid Questions … in Science covers biology, chemistry, physics, human physiology, and space—providing easy-to-understand, delightfully cheeky answers to over one hundred common questions, from the age-old, to the ridiculous, to the sublime.
“Science can be wonderfully silly, occasionally bizarre, but always awe-inspiring.”—Leah Elson
Leah Elson has been obsessed with the sciences since childhood, pursuing her lifelong passion through premedical sciences at Harvard University, a graduate education in biotechnology at Johns Hopkins University, and a second graduate degree in biostatistics and epidemiology from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. She recently entered her fourteenth year as an academically published medical researcher. Currently, Leah has more than eighty-seven published manuscripts and supplements, over one thousand indexed citations from other published investigators around the world, and an active scientific profile on ResearchGate, where her published manuscripts generate two to three thousand reads per week.
Leah Elson has been obsessed with the sciences since childhood, pursuing her lifelong passion through premedical sciences at Harvard University, a graduate education in biotechnology at Johns Hopkins University, and a second graduate degree in biostatistics and epidemiology from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. She recently entered her fourteenth year as an academically published medical researcher. Currently, Leah has more than eighty-seven published manuscripts and supplements, over one thousand indexed citations from other published investigators around the world, and an active scientific profile on ResearchGate, where her published manuscripts generate two to three thousand reads per week.
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“What I’m loving about this book…is that it has a very user-friendly vibe. It’s the opposite of a heavy, dense scientific manuscript.”
“How [Leah] approaches this with such passion and conviction is just really amazing.”
“[Leah] gets it. She gets the idea that people need to understand this stuff.”
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