Why are we humans practically the only animal to prefer to use one hand (or foot) over the other? What does beauty have to do with the left and right halves of our bodies? And how long before we can grow entire organs, like knee joints or breasts? And what is the strange disease that has run through various British Royal families for centuries, and helped lose the colony that has become the USA, and how is this disease related to Dracula (Vlad the Impaler, or the original Vampire)?
What was the secret behind the strange Muslim steel that terrified the Crusaders, how did the secret get lost, and what does a company that builds bulldozers want to do with this steel? And why is the "natural" state of a dirt road corrugated, and is this yet another example of The Law of Maximum Inconvenience?
How did an apple cause the Trojan House, and why have we been stacking apples wrongly for thousands of years (and still do so today)?
This book has all this and more. This book has real physics, when it asks (and answers) how can Chaos Theory make you Fabulously Wealthy, and how can some women in Africa carry enormous loads without burning up extra energy? You want chemistry - well then, what is tea scum, and how can you prevent it?
