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	title:	Can Cows Walk Down Stairs?: The Best Brains Answer the Biggest and Smallest Scientific Questions
	author:	Paul Heiney
	format:	Hardcover
	publisher:	The History Press Ltd
	released:	September 22, 2005
	isbn:	0750937475
	isbn-13:	9780750937474

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Customer Reviews
Enjoyable enough read but peppered with inaccuracies - Rated It's a perfectly fun book to dip into and easy enough to read, but there are too many factual errors, evidence of lack of proof-reading and generally simply not answering the questions, for a pedantic scientist to be able to entirely enjoy it. Examples: - claiming nettles sting with formic acid - confusing galaxies with the universe - claiming the distant planet Sedna is a mere 10 million miles from the Sun - determining fingernail growth of 0.5mm/week to be 2.16mm/month, ignoring significant figures Ultimately it mainly does what it says on the tin in terms of its recycling of the source material, but that source material really should have been checked better.

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Enjoyable enough read but peppered with inaccuracies - Rated 3/5
It's a perfectly fun book to dip into and easy enough to read, but there are too many factual errors, evidence of lack of proof-reading and generally simply not answering the questions, for a pedantic scientist to be able to entirely enjoy it.

Examples:
- claiming nettles sting with formic acid
- confusing galaxies with the universe
- claiming the distant planet Sedna is a mere 10 million miles from the Sun
- determining fingernail growth of 0.5mm/week to be 2.16mm/month, ignoring significant figures

Ultimately it mainly does what it says on the tin in terms of its recycling of the source material, but that source material really should have been checked better.