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Science for Life
A manual for better living
2015
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3.44
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400
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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 lives—improving 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 brainpower—from 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).
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Author

Brian Clegg
Brian Clegg
Author · 52 books

Brian's latest books, Ten Billion Tomorrows and How Many Moons does the Earth Have are now available to pre-order. He has written a range of other science titles, including the bestselling Inflight Science, The God Effect, Before the Big Bang, A Brief History of Infinity, Build Your Own Time Machine and Dice World. Along with appearances at the Royal Institution in London he has spoken at venues from Oxford and Cambridge Universities to Cheltenham Festival of Science, has contributed to radio and TV programmes, and is a popular speaker at schools. Brian is also editor of the successful www.popularscience.co.uk book review site and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Brian has Masters degrees from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences and from Lancaster University in Operational Research, a discipline originally developed during the Second World War to apply the power of mathematics to warfare. It has since been widely applied to problem solving and decision making in business. Brian has also written regular columns, features and reviews for numerous publications, including Nature, The Guardian, PC Week, Computer Weekly, Personal Computer World, The Observer, Innovative Leader, Professional Manager, BBC History, Good Housekeeping and House Beautiful. His books have been translated into many languages, including German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, Norwegian, Thai and even Indonesian.

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