How to Fossilize Your Hamster
Have you ever wondered how to: • Weigh your own head? • Tell if a martini has been shaken, not stirred? • Extract the iron from breakfast cereal? • Make eggs go green? • Measure the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave? This brilliantly wide-ranging collection of do-it-yourself experiments from Mick O’Hare and *New Scientist* magazine – designed to be done at home or nearby, using everyday household items – effortlessly displays scientific principles in action, and will amaze, inform and delight. It will bring out the scientist in everyone.