"It's all one big adventure," she writes, "because you don't know where it will take you next. Storm in a Teacup The Physics of Everyday Life By: Helen Czerski Narrated by: Chloe Massey Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins 4.3 (14 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. She guides us through the principles of gases ('Explosions.
Czerski's accessible explanations share the wonder of experimentation and the pleasure of figuring things out. In Storm in a Teacup, Helen Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking ordinary objects and occurrences, like popcorn popping, coffee stains, and fridge magnets, to big ideas like climate change, the energy crisis, or innovative medical testing. Czerski's writing is playful and witty: London's Tower Bridge is "Narnia for engineers," cyclists zoom around a velodrome "like demented hamsters on a gigantic wheel," and chapter titles such as "Why Don't Ducks Get Cold Feet?" and "Spoons, Spirals, and Sputnik" draw readers into diverse and memorable explorations of such diverse topics as matter phase changes and why dropped toast tends to land buttered side down. The slosh of a cup of tea grows into a look at earthquakes. Spinning an egg offers insight into spiral galaxies, and considering bubbles and marine snail snot can reveal how fluids behave.
Czerskis skill is to make sure it never gets too tricky, but focusing on the science of everyday objects - such as how the fact that boiled eggs are solid while raw eggs are liquid inside means. A quick lesson in "ballistic cooking" why popcorn pops and imagining how an elephant uses its trunk segues into understanding how rockets work. Storm in a Teacup is an accessible guide to Physics, a science that gets complicated very quickly when you have to study it at school and beyond. She begins her discussion with ordinary popcorn. In this delightful pop science title, Czerski, a physicist at University College London, shows that understanding how the universe works requires little more than paying attention to patterns and figuring out increasingly refined ways to explain them.
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