Rating: - Enjoyable enough read but peppered with inaccuracies
It's a perfectly fun book to dip into and easy enough to read, but there are too many factual errors, evidence of lack of proof-reading and generally simply not answering the questions, for a pedantic scientist to be able to entirely enjoy it.
Examples:
- claiming nettles sting with formic acid
- confusing galaxies with the universe
- claiming the distant planet Sedna is a mere 10 million miles from the Sun
- determining fingernail growth of 0.5mm/week to be 2.16mm/month, ... Read More