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Did you know that a tiny golf ball-sized creature called the blue-ringed octopus contains enough venom to kill 26 adult humans? Or why the Sydney funnel web spider is one of the most dangerous creatures in the world?
Snip is a little crocodile who loves his dad. But when he realises he doesn't know what his dad DOES all day, he heads off with Max the monkey, in search of an answer. Snip soon discovers that his friends' dads can do all sorts of special things, and he wonders whether his own dad is good at anything. In the end, Snip's mum shows him that he has the cleverest dad of all - AMAZING! The award-win…
At the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth, world-famous mathematician Ian Stewart narrates the history of the emergence of this remarkable area of study. Stewart introduces us to such characters as the Renaissance Italian genius, rogue, scholar, and gambler Girolamo Cardano, who stole the …