Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light
travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour
goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we
don't often hear about because they are so specialised, or turn out
to be dead ends. Yet researchers have given hallucinogenic drugs to
blind people (seriously), tried to weigh the soul as it departs the
body and planned to blast a new Panama Canal with atomic weapons.
Real scientific breakthroughs sometimes come out of the most
surprising and unpromising work. How to Make a Tornado is about the
margins of science - not the research down tried-and-tested routes,
but some of its zanier and more brilliant by-ways. Investigating
everything from what it's like to die, to exploding trousers and
recycled urine, this book is a reminder that science is intensely
creative and often very amusing - and when their minds run free,
scientists can fire the imagination like nobody else.
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