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• catalog abstract "Short essays explain such scientific questions as why cats' eyes glow at night, why rivers don't flow in a straight line, and how the world looks to a bee.".
• catalog alternative "Moment of science (Radio program)".
• catalog contributor b4109933.
• catalog contributor b4109934.
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "Benjamin Franklin and the Swatches on the Snow -- Once You've Had It, You Can't Catch It Again -- Why Is the Sky Blue? -- Static Electricity -- Why One Rotten Apple Can Spoil the Barrel -- Superconductors -- Does Smoking Cause Lung Cancer? -- What Is a Gene? -- Why Do Cats' Eyes Glow at Night? -- Paul Ehrlich, Dyes, and Drugs -- Why You Can Never Get to the End of the Rainbow -- The Difference between a Square and a Diamond -- Sounds over a Lake at Evening -- Do the Best Dogs Come from the Pound? -- Flip a Coin, Beat the Odds -- Stroboscopic Stagecoach Wheels -- Why Are Bells Made of Metal? -- Why Rivers Don't Flow in a Straight Line -- What's Your Average Speed? -- The Basic Unit of Life -- How Aspirin Got Its Name -- Cold Water at the Bottom of a Lake -- Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men? -- A Thirty Percent Chance of Rain -- Limeys -- How Does Lung Cancer Start? -- The Light of Spring -- Vitamines and Vitamins -- Colors and Their Opposites -- How Does the World Look to a Bee? -- ".
• catalog description "Death of the Dinosaurs: A Quick Review -- Why Do We Put Cut Flowers in Water? -- Life without Zero -- Prostaglandins -- Sweetened Condensed Milk -- What the Weather Report Doesn't Tell You -- Why Mowing the Lawn Doesn't Kill the Grass -- A Mirror Riddle -- Galileo's Job Application -- The Consequences of Smallness -- Ozone and Ice -- Benjamin Franklin's Madeira Wine Surprise -- Viruses Attack Bacteria -- The Birth of the Atomic Age -- Honest Answers to Personal Questions -- Risk Assessment -- Broken Symmetry: Cosmetic or Cosmic? -- Antimatter -- The Secret of Clear Ice Cubes -- Broken Cups and Atoms -- Trapdoor Codes -- Late-Night Radio -- Does Nature Abhor a Vacuum? -- How Does Water Get to the Top of a Tree? -- Adding and Subtracting Colors -- What Could Change Earth's Climate? -- Polarized Light and a Quiet Lake -- Are Forest Fires Always Bad? -- Death of the Dinosaurs Revisited -- Breaking a Coffee Cup -- How Bacteria Resist Antibiotics -- Cool Wind before a Thunderstorm -- ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• catalog description "Lightning -- Thunder -- Heat Lightning -- How Many Girls, How Many Boys? -- Modern Biology in a Monastery Garden -- See Yourself as Others See You -- Neutrinos and the End of the Universe -- Cooking an Egg -- How a Field Can Become a Forest -- The Most Important Fly in the History of Science -- How Plants Fight -- How Fast Are the Clouds Moving? -- Sort Nuts by Shaking the Can -- Everybody Talks about Genes - But What Do They Do? -- Looking High and Low at Leaves -- A Taste Test -- Why a Rubber Band Snaps Back -- Breaking the Tension -- How Cockroaches Get Away -- The Moon Illusion -- Polarizing Sunglasses -- Pros and Cons of the Mercator Projection -- A Surprise at a Shadow's Edge -- Algae as a Thermostat -- Balance a Yardstick without Looking -- A Rock in a Rowboat -- Whiter and Brighter Than New -- Hormone Insecticides -- An Inverted Image -- A New Person from a Nose? -- The Mysterious Number Pi -- Springs in the Cafeteria -- Firefly Signals -- Mirages -- Seeing Yellow -- ".
• catalog description "Short essays explain such scientific questions as why cats' eyes glow at night, why rivers don't flow in a straight line, and how the world looks to a bee.".
• catalog description "Why Cotton Wrinkles -- DNA Caught in the Act -- Newton's Rainbow -- The Elastic Ruler -- Uncorking a Mystery -- Psychological Accounting -- Color Is in the Eye of the Beholder -- Wine and Life -- The Sweet Spot on a Baseball Bat -- Make an Image without a Lens -- Chimes, for Your Ears Only -- It's Not Just the Heat; It's the Humidity -- Fluorescent Lamps -- The Truth about Bleach -- Carbon Dating -- Soap Bubbles and Butterfly Wings -- Tracing the Roots of Energy -- Why Fan Blades Stay Dirty -- Brown Apples and Brown Tea -- Optics and Glue -- Light Takes Time -- Read Fine Print through a Pinhole -- Get Your Bearings with Two Thumbtacks -- A Globe as a Sundial -- An Ink Ring in a Glass of Water -- Why After-Dinner Mints Taste Cool -- A Leaf Falls -- A Dot, a Line, a Crease, a Beautiful Curve -- Directing".
• catalog description "a Living Cell -- Dancing Pollen Grains -- Wet Weather Means Brighter Colors -- The Spinning Earth and the Weather -- Infection: A Struggle between Two Organisms -- Why Doesn't a Pregnant Woman Reject Her Fetus? -- The Floating Cork Trick".
• catalog extent "xv, 165 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0253207800 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0253325919 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
• catalog subject "500 20".
• catalog subject "Moment of science (Radio program)".
• catalog subject "Q162 .W53 1993".
• catalog subject "Science Miscellanea Juvenile literature.".
• catalog subject "Science Miscellanea.".
• catalog subject "Science Popular works.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Benjamin Franklin and the Swatches on the Snow -- Once You've Had It, You Can't Catch It Again -- Why Is the Sky Blue? -- Static Electricity -- Why One Rotten Apple Can Spoil the Barrel -- Superconductors -- Does Smoking Cause Lung Cancer? -- What Is a Gene? -- Why Do Cats' Eyes Glow at Night? -- Paul Ehrlich, Dyes, and Drugs -- Why You Can Never Get to the End of the Rainbow -- The Difference between a Square and a Diamond -- Sounds over a Lake at Evening -- Do the Best Dogs Come from the Pound? -- Flip a Coin, Beat the Odds -- Stroboscopic Stagecoach Wheels -- Why Are Bells Made of Metal? -- Why Rivers Don't Flow in a Straight Line -- What's Your Average Speed? -- The Basic Unit of Life -- How Aspirin Got Its Name -- Cold Water at the Bottom of a Lake -- Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men? -- A Thirty Percent Chance of Rain -- Limeys -- How Does Lung Cancer Start? -- The Light of Spring -- Vitamines and Vitamins -- Colors and Their Opposites -- How Does the World Look to a Bee? -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Death of the Dinosaurs: A Quick Review -- Why Do We Put Cut Flowers in Water? -- Life without Zero -- Prostaglandins -- Sweetened Condensed Milk -- What the Weather Report Doesn't Tell You -- Why Mowing the Lawn Doesn't Kill the Grass -- A Mirror Riddle -- Galileo's Job Application -- The Consequences of Smallness -- Ozone and Ice -- Benjamin Franklin's Madeira Wine Surprise -- Viruses Attack Bacteria -- The Birth of the Atomic Age -- Honest Answers to Personal Questions -- Risk Assessment -- Broken Symmetry: Cosmetic or Cosmic? -- Antimatter -- The Secret of Clear Ice Cubes -- Broken Cups and Atoms -- Trapdoor Codes -- Late-Night Radio -- Does Nature Abhor a Vacuum? -- How Does Water Get to the Top of a Tree? -- Adding and Subtracting Colors -- What Could Change Earth's Climate? -- Polarized Light and a Quiet Lake -- Are Forest Fires Always Bad? -- Death of the Dinosaurs Revisited -- Breaking a Coffee Cup -- How Bacteria Resist Antibiotics -- Cool Wind before a Thunderstorm -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Lightning -- Thunder -- Heat Lightning -- How Many Girls, How Many Boys? -- Modern Biology in a Monastery Garden -- See Yourself as Others See You -- Neutrinos and the End of the Universe -- Cooking an Egg -- How a Field Can Become a Forest -- The Most Important Fly in the History of Science -- How Plants Fight -- How Fast Are the Clouds Moving? -- Sort Nuts by Shaking the Can -- Everybody Talks about Genes - But What Do They Do? -- Looking High and Low at Leaves -- A Taste Test -- Why a Rubber Band Snaps Back -- Breaking the Tension -- How Cockroaches Get Away -- The Moon Illusion -- Polarizing Sunglasses -- Pros and Cons of the Mercator Projection -- A Surprise at a Shadow's Edge -- Algae as a Thermostat -- Balance a Yardstick without Looking -- A Rock in a Rowboat -- Whiter and Brighter Than New -- Hormone Insecticides -- An Inverted Image -- A New Person from a Nose? -- The Mysterious Number Pi -- Springs in the Cafeteria -- Firefly Signals -- Mirages -- Seeing Yellow -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Why Cotton Wrinkles -- DNA Caught in the Act -- Newton's Rainbow -- The Elastic Ruler -- Uncorking a Mystery -- Psychological Accounting -- Color Is in the Eye of the Beholder -- Wine and Life -- The Sweet Spot on a Baseball Bat -- Make an Image without a Lens -- Chimes, for Your Ears Only -- It's Not Just the Heat; It's the Humidity -- Fluorescent Lamps -- The Truth about Bleach -- Carbon Dating -- Soap Bubbles and Butterfly Wings -- Tracing the Roots of Energy -- Why Fan Blades Stay Dirty -- Brown Apples and Brown Tea -- Optics and Glue -- Light Takes Time -- Read Fine Print through a Pinhole -- Get Your Bearings with Two Thumbtacks -- A Globe as a Sundial -- An Ink Ring in a Glass of Water -- Why After-Dinner Mints Taste Cool -- A Leaf Falls -- A Dot, a Line, a Crease, a Beautiful Curve -- Directing".
• catalog tableOfContents "a Living Cell -- Dancing Pollen Grains -- Wet Weather Means Brighter Colors -- The Spinning Earth and the Weather -- Infection: A Struggle between Two Organisms -- Why Doesn't a Pregnant Woman Reject Her Fetus? -- The Floating Cork Trick".
• catalog title "Why you can never get to the end of the rainbow and other moments of science / edited by Don Glass, original scripts by Stephen Fentress.".
• catalog type "Juvenile works. fast".
• catalog type "Miscellanea. fast".
• catalog type "Popular works. fast".
• catalog type "text".