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Science for Life

Science for Life

Using the Latest Science to Change Our Lives for the Better

by B. Clegg and Brian Clegg
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/03/2015

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From the failings of the five-second rule to the truth about phone masts and nuclear power, kept up-to-date with an online resource, "Science for Life" is your guide to surviving and thriving in the modern world.

Science plays a fundamental role in everyday livesimproving health, increasing life expectancy, and enhancing life experience. Yet it can be difficult to get a handle on what's best for you and your family.

Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg presents the latest scientific advice, cutting through the vested interests and confusing contradictory statements that litter the media and the internet to give a clear picture of what science is telling us right now about changing our lives for the better.

Discover why the much-advertised antioxidants aren't good for you, the truth about fat and sugar, and why one of the healthiest foods contains carcinogens and 21 E-numbers. Find out what works and what doesn't in enhancing brainpowerfrom the failure of playing Mozart to babies to the surprising abilities of caffeine and nicotine. Understand the tools that advertisers use to persuade us and how we can turn the psychological pressure back onto them.

Brian Clegg is a science writer who studied physics at Cambridge University and specializes in making the strangest aspects of the universe, from infinity to time travel and quantum theory, accessible to the general reader. He is editor of popularscience.co.uk and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK)."

ISBN:
9781848318182
9781848318182
Category:
Life sciences: general issues
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-03-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Icon Books, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
220.47x142.49x35.81mm
Weight:
0.54kg
Brian Clegg

Brian Clegg, consultant editor, read Natural Sciences, focusing on experimental physics, at Cambridge University. After developing hi-tech solutions for British Airways, he formed a creative consultancy advising clients ranging from the BBC to the Met Office. He has written for Nature, The Times and The Wall Street Journal and has lectured at Oxford and Cambridge universities and the Royal Institution. He is editor of the book review site www.popularscience.co.uk, and his publications include A Brief History of Infinity and How to Build a Time Machine.

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