The Hair of the Dog: And Other Scientific Surprises - January 2011

4. The Hair of the Dog - Karl Sabbagh

304 Pages, Borrowed from local Library

I love science. I love watching programmes about science and I love reading books about science...but not the heavy stuff. Stephen Hawking stuff is just a bit too much of a strain on the brain for me.

But I especially love science that is aimed towards explaining the big stuff to the general audience; Prof. Brian Cox, Cosmos, Through the Wormhole etc.

This book is filled with little tidbits of weird, strange, funny science that makes it perfect for me. the writing is also very easy to read with a lot of humour and tongue-in-cheek stuff to keep it amusing and interesting.

The author also uses these to explain bigger concepts in science so that the reader doesn't get scared off by the idea of deep science.

Each chapter covers a different area which I like as I found just when I was getting a little bored of the world of space science, the chapter ended, and we moved onto Mathematics...and when that got boring the author moved on to Plants and animals...and so on.

If you like science, you'll like this book. 

I give this 5 "Flipping Crayfish" out of 5!