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Bodyology - The Curious Science of Our Bodies (Paperback)
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Bodyology - The Curious Science of Our Bodies (Paperback)
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List price R283
Loot Price R191
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Ever wondered what it's like to be hit by lightning or to lose your
sense of smell? Heard about the woman saved by bee stings - or the
window cleaner who survived a 400ft fall? Originally written for
the Wellcome charity, 16 stories by leading science writers explore
the mysteries of the human body. Learn about everything from diets
to allergies, hair colour to rare blood, and from allergies to
remote surgery. Contents What's it like to be struck by lightning?
- Charlotte Huff Why do we colour hair? - Rebecca Guenard The man
with the golden blood - Penny Bailey Why dieters can't rely on
calories - Cynthia Graber 3D printers can now make body parts - Ian
Birrell How to fall from a skyscraper and live to tell the tale -
Neil Steinberg The quest to explain miscarriages - Holly Cave Can
the power of thought outwit ageing? - Jo Marchant Seeking a 'cure'
for male baldness - Rhodri Marsden How bee stings saved a woman's
life - Christie Wilcox The global trend for 'kangaroo' babies -
Lena Corner What it means to lose your sense of smell - Emma Young
The doctor aiming to end eye pain - Bryn Nelson Could allergies be
a defence against noxious chemicals? - Carl Zimmer Why pharma may
be going slow on the male pill - Andy Extance How virtual reality
headsets aid remote surgery - Jo Marchant Shhh! What exactly is the
menopause? - Rose George Extract What it's like to be struck by
lightning? Sometimes they'll keep the clothing, the strips of shirt
or trousers that weren't cut away and discarded by the doctors and
nurses. They'll tell and retell their story at family gatherings
and online, sharing pictures and news reports of survivals like
their own or far bigger tragedies. The video of a tourist hit on a
Brazilian beach or the Texan struck dead while out running. The 65
people killed during four stormy days in Bangladesh. Only by
piecing together the bystander reports, the singed clothing and the
burnt skin can survivors start to construct their own picture of
the possible trajectory of the electrical current, one that can
approach 200 million volts and travel at one-third of the speed of
light. In this way, Jaime Santana's family have stitched together
some of what happened that Saturday afternoon in April 2016,
through his injuries, burnt clothing and, most of all, his shredded
broad-brimmed straw hat. "It looks like somebody threw a cannonball
through it," says Sydney Vail, a trauma surgeon in Phoenix,
Arizona, who helped care for Jaime after he arrived by ambulance,
his heart having been shocked several times along the way as
paramedics struggled to stabilise its rhythm. Jaime had been
horse-riding with his brother-in-law and two others in the
mountains behind his brother-in-law's home outside Phoenix, a
frequent weekend pastime. Dark clouds had formed, heading in their
direction, so the group had started back. They had nearly reached
the house when it happened, says Alejandro Torres, Jaime's
brother-in-law. He paces out the area involved, the landscape
dotted with small creosote bushes just behind his acre of property.
In the distance, the desert mountains rise, rippled chocolate-brown
peaks against the horizon. The riders had witnessed quite a bit of
lightning as they neared Alejandro's house, enough that they had
commented on the dramatic zigzags across the sky. But scarcely a
drop of rain had fallen as they approached the horse corrals, just
several hundred feet from the back of the property. Alejandro
doesn't think he was knocked out for long. When he regained
consciousness, he was lying face down on the ground, sore all over.
His horse was gone. The two other riders appeared shaken but
unharmed. Alejandro went looking for Jaime, who he found on the
other side of his fallen horse. Alejandro brushed against the
horse's legs as he walked passed. They felt hard, like metal, he
says, punctuating his English with some Spanish. He reached Jaime:
"I see smoke coming up - that's when I got scared." Flames were
coming off of Jaime's chest. Buy the book to read on...
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