Bet You Can't! - Softcover

Cobb, Vicki; Darling, Kathy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380545020 ISBN 13: 9780380545025

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1983

Synopsis

With this collection of irresistible bets, you can team up with science and be a winner every time. Stump your family, friends, or favorite enemy with these deceptively simple dares. They're all impossible to perform thanks to principles of gravity, mechanics, fluids, logic, energy and perception. For every trick -- whether it be blowing up a balloon in a bottle or kissing your elbow -- the authors reveal the natural cause at work that guarantees human defeat.

Here's an entertaining and enticing introduction to basic scientific principles that proves yet another: science can be fun!

WINNER OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCE'S CHILDREN'S SCIENCE BOOK AWARD

About this title

About the Author:

Vicki Cobb is the author of many award-winning science books for young people. With degrees from Barnard College and Columbia University Teachers College, Vicki enjoyed an early career as a science teacher. She now devotes all her time to writing and speaking to teachers, children, and librarians all over the country. She frequently writes for the Huffington Post and is also the founder and president of iNK Think Tank, an organization dedicated to getting high-quality nonfiction books into classrooms. To find out what recent science experiment Vicki has been cooking up, visit her online at www.vickicobb.com. 

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0380545020
• ISBN 13: 9780380545025
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128