Is it worth paying more for a fluorescent light? Should my sunglasses have polarizing lenses? How can I tell a raw egg from a boiled egg without taking off their shells? Why isn’t my ketchup coming out of the bottle? Why does my tea water slosh around when I carry my mug to the other end of the room? Why don’t ducks get cold feet? Well, I never put much thought in about these things nor their physics but now I can amaze my friends with newfound knowledge! I could go on and on about the stuff I learned from Helen, but just do yourself a favor and go buy the book. Chock full of tidbits on how/why stuff works, she breaks down things that I never even thought about and makes science easily understood.Ĭuriosity is human nature and I find myself more curious of everyday experiences and thinking about things in new ways after reading Helen’s book. This is a thoughtful debut by Czerski, a physicist/oceanographer. I can honestly say that you will not see everyday things in the same light again if you read this book and so, if you have any interest in how the world works and the strange, amazing patterns within it, give this a try.Īuthor and PhD Helen Czerski loves physics and wants others to share her enthusiasm. She does not dumb down her writing, but simply makes it accessible, understandable and entirely riveting. You have such titles as, “What goes up must come down,” “Why don’t ducks get cold feet?” and “Spoons, Spirals and Sputnik.” Who can resist? Being a child of the Seventies, when science was not a compulsory subject, my scientific knowledge is less than zero, but I found myself enthused by this book. From these innocuous springboards, she uses these examples to investigate much greater events in science and technology, using these seemingly simple beginnings.Įven the chapter titles in this book are delightful. Each chapter begins with something everyday – something small such as trying to get ketchup from a bottle or stirring a cup of tea. Of course we are all different.How many times have you heard someone say (possibly one of your children…) that a particular subject at school is not relevant to them personally? In this book, author Helen Czerski attempts to show us how physics affects everyday life. The very thought that my life horrors, the very worst moments of my life, could be put out there (permanently) for entertainment purposes and ultimately to make money would hurt me beyond any repairable measure. No one has the right to tell my truth but me. But if she didn’t, as someone who also suffered childhood sexual abuse (who wouldn’t give permission) and was I to discover that someone had written about it without my knowledge, name changed or not, I would be devastated. She may well have sought permission and given her fellow patients that same choice she gave herself. She gives a history to her ‘characters’ and though she shocks us with her struggles, she never reveals her own history - which is (obviously) her choice. There are some deeply personal revelations about these patient’s childhood experiences (and a distinct lack of the authors own) and I have to wonder if they are the author’s story to tell. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Īlthough this book is quick witted, eloquent and paints a very vivid picture what life inside our mental health service is like, I felt uncomfortable reading it.Īlthough names have been changed to protect people’s identities, I’m not sure how I would feel if someone in my group therapy (where there’s an absolute expectation of confidentiality) wrote a book about their own experience but also included my own. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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