Cookbook author David Joachim shows how his book The Science Of Good Food can fix most any kitchen mess. And in this video you’ll learn how to turn a basic custard into a delicious orange flan.
Joachim says you can turn to the book when you are baking a cake and something goes wrong. He’ll show you how to use science to fix a food disaster. He and his co-authors offer 100 recipes and over 1,600 tips on using science to cook.
]]>They call William Kamkwamba “the boy who harnessed the wind.” At 14, after dropping out of school, the African boy in a rural Malawi village taught himself how electricity works, and built a windmill from scraps and pieces of a bicycle.
Now 22, Kamkwmaba has a book, detailing how he built his windmill and he outlines his plan for his next invention–a steam engine run by a solar oven.
Here’s an interview with the author at Amazon.com.
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Entangled Photons and The Lost Symbol
Avid fiction aficionados have anxiously awaited author Dan Brown’s latest rip-snorting adventure through the mysterious. The Lost Symbol is Brown’s new book, which features the largely unknown field of noetic sciences as a means to move his plot along.
Loosely based on the quantum mechanical principle of entanglement, noetics aims to scientifically understand the mind-connection as a way to discover the unconscious.
The Institute of Noetics has been using physics to drive research that has appeared in bona fide peer-reviewed journals. And, now it’s front-and-center position in Brown’s book will surely push it into public consciousness.
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Urban geologist David Williams is a big stone kinda guy. He is not one to shy away from a nice chunk of gneiss. Nor will he wilt at the sight of weathered brownstone–one of his favorites.
Now, the author of Stories in Stone: Travels in Urban Geology, Williams shares his passion for rocks–from travertine to pop–in his new book that gets at the heart of Earth.
It’s a tour-de-force through plate tectonics, dinosaurs and even the possibility of life on other planets but the stories that stones tell are firmly rooted in our cultural and economic lives.
REALscience sat down with Williams and discovered why he is so passionate about these rocks.
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Here’s the REALscience Top 10 Summer Science Books.
1. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
2. Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer
3. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angiers
4. Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson
5. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration in the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
6. 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Mysteries of Our Time by Michael Brooks
7. The Carbon Age: How Life’s Core Element has Become Civilization’s Greatest Threat by Eric Roston
8. The Book of Clouds by John Day
9. Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer by Kathleen Crane
10. Doubt is Their Product: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health by David Michaels
Other Science Book lists:
Amazon Top Science Books
Library Journal’s annual science book list
Examiner.com’s vacation science reading list
If you want to continue the discussion, join the REALscience Book Club. E-mail REALscience for details.
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Photo: Couple reading books on sandy beach with feet resting on coconuts, courtesy of images.com
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REALscience is excited to announce a partnership with Science, Naturally! to produce an audio version of its book, One-Minute Mysteries 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Science!
Click here to listen to A Fair Contest, the mystery featured on Science Friday.
Book authors Eric and Natalie Yoder are guests on NPRs Science Friday today, where they discuss their book and the upcoming One-Minute Mysteries 65 Short Mysteries You Solve with Math!
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Will particles smaller than a virus or many chemical compounds hurt people, animals or the environment? That is the unanswered question of nanotechnology and one of the biggest fears. Government agencies are starting to fund scientists looking at this question in hopes of determining what to expect at the atomic level where all bets are off.
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A Seattle freelance science writer talks to Real Science about winning a coveted American Association for the Advancement of Science journalism award while her young son Jacob adds his own soundtrack.
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