Can a bee sting a bee? and other big questions from little people
"In the spirit of Schott's Miscellany, The Magic of Reality, and The Dangerous Book for Boys comes Can a Bee Sting a Bee? -- a smart, illuminating, essential, and utterly delightful handbook for perplexed parents and their curious children. Author Gemma Elwin Harris has lovingly compiled weighty que...
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Table of Contents:
- Are there any undiscovered animals? / Sir David Attenborough
- Is it OK to eat a worm? / Bear Grylls
- What are atoms? / Marcus Chown
- Why are the grown-ups in charge? / Miranda Hart
- Why is blood red, not blue? / Dr. Christian Jessen
- How are dreams made? / Alain de Botton
- How long would it take to walk around the world? / Rosie Swale-Pope
- Why do we have music? / Jarvis Cocker
- Do aliens exist? / Dr. Seth Shostak
- Where does wind come from? / Antony Woodward and Rob Penn
- Why do we speak English? / Professor David Crystal
- Why did dinosaurs go extinct and not other animals? / Dr. Richard Fortey
- Why do cakes taste so nice? / Lorraine Pascale
- How do plants and trees grow from a small seed? / Alys Fowler
- Why do monkeys like bananas? / Daniel Simmonds
- Is the human brain the most powerful thing on earth? / Derren Brown
- What is global warming? / Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
- Why do I get hiccups? / Harry Hill
- Why is space so sparkly? / Martin Rees
- Why can't animals talk like us? / Noam Chomsky
- How do story writers get ideas for characters? / Dame Jacqueline Wilson
- How do cars work? / David Rooney
- Why can't I tickle myself? / David Eagleman
- Who had the first pet? / Celia Haddon
- Why are planets round? / Professor Chris Riley
- Can a bee sting a bee? / Dr. George McGavin
- Why do we cook food? / Heston Blumenthal
- How do you keep going when you're losing in sport? / Dame Kelly Holmes
- Why do wars happen? / Alex Crawford
- Why do we go to the toilet? / Adam Hart-Davis
- Why do lions roar? / Kate Humble
- Why do we have money? / Robert Peston
- Who wrote the first book ever? / Professor Martyn Lyons
- Why do elephants have trunks? / Michaela Strachan
- Why are some people mean? / Dr. Oliver James
- How do trees make the air that we breathe? / Dr David Bellamy
- If the universe started from nothing, how did it become something? / Dr. Simon Singh
- Why do people have different-coloured skin? / Carl Zimmer
- Will the North and South Poles ever melt completely? / Dr. Gabrielle Walker
- Where does "good" come from? / A.C. Grayling
- Why is the sun so hot? / Dr. Lucie Green
- What is the most endangered animal in the world? / Mark Carwardine
- Why do girls have babies and boys don't? / Dr. Sarah Jarvis
- In Victorian times why did kids do all the work? / Claire Tomalin
- What is gravity, and why isn't there any in space? / Dr. Nicholas J.M. Patrick
- Why can't we live forever? / Richard Holloway
- How does water get into the clouds so it can rain? / Gavin Pretor-Pinney
- Why do animals that fly have feathers, not including bats? / John "Jack" Horner
- How does my brain control me? / Baroness Susan Greenfield
- How do chefs get ideas for recipes? / Gordon Ramsay
- Are we all related? / Dr. Richard Dawkins
- Contents note continued: How do they know all snowflakes are different? / Justin Pollard
- Why does time go slowly when you want it to go fast? / Claudia Hammond
- Who first made metal things? / Neil Oliver
- How do the bubbles get into fizzy drinks? / Steve Mould
- Why is the sky blue? / Simon Ings
- How do sportspeople concentrate when the crowd is noisy? / Colin Montgomerie
- Do monkeys and chickens have anything in common? / Dr. Yan Wong
- How did we first learn to write? / John Man
- Why do scientists look at germs, and why can't I see them? / Joanne Manaster
- Do any people eat polar bears or lions? / Benedict Allen
- Why does the moon change shape? / Chris Riley
- Do numbers go on forever? / Marcus du Sautoy
- Where did the first seed come from? / Dr. Karen James
- Why was Guy Fawkes so naughty? / Philippa Gregory
- What do you have to do to get into the Olympic Games? / Jessica Ennis
- Who was the first artist? / Michael Wood
- Contents note continued: What am I made of? / Lawrence Krauss
- Why do penguins live at the South Pole but not the North? / Vanessa Berlowitz
- How does an aeroplane fly? / David Rooney
- What's the strongest animal? / Steve Leonard
- Who named all the cities? / Mark Forsyth
- Why is water wet? / Roger Highfield
- What would I look like if I didn't have a skeleton? / Professor Joy S. Gaylinn Reidenberg
- Are cows polluting the air? / Tim Smit
- How do writers think of their ideas? / Philip Pullman
- Who invented chocolate? / Joanne Harris
- Why do men grow beards and not women? / Dr. Christian Jessen
- Is sugar bad for you? / Annabel Karmel
- How did they build the pyramids in Egypt? / Dr. Joyce Tyldesley
- Why is the sky dark at night? / Christopher Potter
- What should you do when you can't think what to draw or paint? / Tracey Emin
- How do you make electricity? / Professor Jim Al-Khalili
- Did Alexander the Great like frogs? / Bettany Hughes
- What are our bones made of? / Alice Roberts
- If you're on a boat with no food or water, what do you do? / Roz Savage
- How does my cat always find her way home? / Dr. Rupert Sheldrake
- What's inside the world? / Iain Stewart
- Who is God? / Julian Baggini, Meg Rosoff, Francis Spufford
- How many different types of beetle are there in the whole world? / Dr. George McGavin
- How far away is space? / Marcus Chown
- How does lightning happen? / Kathy Sykes
- Why are some people taller than others? / Katie Woodard
- Why is wee yellow? / Sally Magnusson
- What was the biggest battle the Romans fought in? / Gary Smailes
- Why do I get bored? / Peter Toohey
- Are there really monsters living in our mouths called blackteria? / Liz Bonnin
- Why do we sleep at night? / Professor Russell G. Foster
- Will we ever be able to go back in time? / Dr. John Gribbin
- How does fire get on fire? / Dr. Bunhead
- Why do we have lots of countries, not just one big country? / Dan Snow
- What makes me me? / Professor Chris Stringer, Professor Gary Marcus, Michael Rosen
- If a cow didn't fart for a whole year and then did one big fart, would it fly into space? / Mary Roach
- Why is the sea salty? / Mark Kurlansky
- What is the internet for? / Clay Shirky
- How did Michelangelo get so famous? / Sister Wendy Beckett
- How do you fall in love? / Jeanette Winterson, David Nicholls, Professor Robin Dunbar
- If my stomach was unravelled how long would it be? / Dr. Michael Mosley
- Why do we have an alphabet? / John Man
- Why do I always fight with my brother and sister? / Professor Tanya Byron
- What are rainbows made of? / Antony Woodward and Rob Penn
- When did people start using recipes? / Mario Batali
- Why does the moon shine? / Dr. Heather Couper
- Where do the oceans come from? / Dr. Gabrielle Walker
- Why do snails have shells but slugs don't? / Nick Baker
- Out-takes!
