How To Save the World with Salad Dressing and Other Outrageous Science Problems
by Byrne, Thomas; Cassidy, TomFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-03-01
Publisher(s): Oneworld Publications
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Summary
Featuring a cast of odd-ball characters and a laugh-out-loud storyline, Byrne and Cassidy explain the basic principles of modern science and guide the reader in working out the rest. With thirty stimulating mindbenders of varying difficulty, including detailed clues and answers for each problem, How to Save the World with Salad Dressing is the perfect Christmas gift for anyone with an interest in science or mathematics.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. x |
| Science guide | p. xviii |
| And so it begins: joining Los Amigos | p. 1 |
| Nepalese extravaganza | p. 5 |
| Knock knock. Who's there? Logic. | p. 7 |
| Shoot the oil baron | p. 9 |
| Swimming pool shenanigans | p. 11 |
| Colonel, shark! | p. 14 |
| I think this is toilet humour | p. 16 |
| Race avec magneticos | p. 18 |
| Cannon conundrum | p. 21 |
| Logistical entanglements | p. 25 |
| Byguin science | p. 27 |
| Along came cocoa | p. 29 |
| Alpha-byguin strikes back | p. 32 |
| A few good iron elephants | p. 34 |
| Weak stream | p. 36 |
| Mañana: it's always a day away | p. 39 |
| Save the llamas | p. 42 |
| Mission implausible | p. 47 |
| Troublesome henchmen | p. 50 |
| Like that scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | p. 54 |
| Thrust powerfully | p. 57 |
| Off with his head | p. 59 |
| Jelly saves the day | p. 62 |
| Nominated driver and problem solver | p. 65 |
| A lot of hot air | p. 67 |
| It's 50 on | p. 69 |
| The great descent | p. 71 |
| Icicles, icy, iced… ice. Or snow. | p. 74 |
| The (not so) great escape | p. 77 |
| How to save the world with salad dressing. Ish. | p. 81 |
| Everything comes to an end | p. 85 |
| Trading card particulars | p. 87 |
| First hints | p. '89 |
| Second hints | p. 95 |
| Third hints | p. 101 |
| Fourth and final hints | p. 107 |
| Answers | p. 114 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 153 |
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