Can Reindeer Fly?: The Science of Christmas - Softcover

Highfield, Roger

 
9781900512749: Can Reindeer Fly?: The Science of Christmas
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1900512742 ISBN 13: 9781900512749
Verlag: Blake Publishing, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

A lighted-hearted scientific investigation into all the rituals and icons of Christmas. What are the thermodynamics involved in cooking a turkey? What are the likely celestial candidates for the Star of Bethlehem? Is the concept of a virgin birth scientifically feasible? What happens to us physically when we overindulge in alcohol? How does snow form? Why are we always depressed after Christmas? How does Santa manage to deliver all those presents in one night? (He has, in fact, little over two ten-thousandths of a second to get between each of the 842 million households he must visit.) This paperback edition has been updated and contains a new chapter on the latest seasonal science - Santa Teleporting. Chapters range from "The decline and fall of virgin births" to "Christmas astrology", and "Santa: the hallucinogenic connection" to "The dreaded sprout".

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Verlag
Blake Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1900512742
ISBN 13 
9781900512749
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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