For Kids & Young Readers
100,000 WHYS FOR CURIOUS ADULTS
Mind-Blowing Answers to the Questions You Never Stopped Asking
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About this book
WHY DOES YOUR OWN VOICE SOUND WRONG ON A RECORDING?
You know the feeling: a small question you have wondered about for years but never actually chased down. Here is the real answer. You normally hear yourself partly through the bones of your skull, which add warm, low tones. A recording captures only the thinner sound that travels through the air, so you finally hear the voice everyone else has heard all along.
That is what this book does. Most fact books tell you THAT something is true. 100,000 Whys for Curious Adults tells you WHY, with the actual mechanism, every single time.
Inside are over 700 of the best questions worth asking, hand-picked and answered in plain English you can finish in a couple of minutes:
Why does money have value at all?Why does the house always win in a casino?Why do we dream, and what is the brain really doing?Why is almost all solid matter empty space?Why is there something instead of nothing?
Twelve parts run from the cosmos to your kitchen: science, nature, the human body, the mind, money, technology, and history. Every answer busts a myth, checks its numbers, and refuses to settle for "it just does." Read one, and you will keep turning pages for the next.
It is the kind of book you pick up for one question and set down forty minutes later, full of things you cannot wait to tell someone. A standout gift for trivia lovers, lifelong learners, and the relentlessly curious.
