
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
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Just as Freakonomics brought economics to life, so Storm in a Teacup brings physics into our daily lives and makes it fascinating.
What is it that helps both scorpions and cyclists to survive? What do raw eggs and gyroscopes have in common? And why does it matter?
In an age of string theory, fluid dynamics and biophysics, it can seem as if the science of our world is for only specialists and academics. Not so, insists Helen Czerski - and in this sparkling new audiobook she explores the patterns and connections that illustrate the grandest theories in the smallest everyday objects and experiences.
Linking what makes popcorn pop to Antarctic winds, coffee stains to blood tests, and ketchup bottles to aliens in space, every thread you pull in the fabric of everyday life shows you something new about the intricate patterns of our world.
Listen to Storm in a Teacup, and you will see and understand the world as you never did before.
- Listening Length10 hours and 14 minutes
- Audible release date10 November 2016
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB079Y6QNDM
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Product details
Listening Length | 10 hours and 14 minutes |
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Author | Helen Czerski |
Narrator | Chloe Massey |
Audible.in Release Date | 10 November 2016 |
Publisher | Random House Audiobooks |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B079Y6QNDM |
Best Sellers Rank | #921 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #4 in Earth Sciences (Audible Books & Originals) #12 in Physics (Audible Books & Originals) #21 in Biological Sciences |
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1. Illustrations, which is an absolute must for this book in particular.
2. The writing style is too colloquial, not much effort went into trying to explain things.
3. Structure: There are no subtopics. The content is very loosely held.
Overall, I won't suggest it. The author knows her stuff and is extremely enthusiastic over what she is doing, but a great scientist doesn't equal a great writer.
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The going is best in the early stages, as there are more areas of Physics for Czerski to explore from her living room or kitchen. This is the 'everyday life' part of the book, but the further we venture into the science, the further we go from the everyday. That's not a problem, per se, but it does mean that you have to pay increasing levels of attention - especially by the time you start reading about electromagnetism. Fortunately the quantum world does not make its presence felt in either tea or milk, so Czerski can leave this part of Physics alone.
The one real weakness of the book is in the writing style. This feels less like a book and more like a written-down Netflix nature documentary. But in a documentary, when the camera cuts from a scene on a beach to a scene ten kilometres under the sea, we have David Attenborough's calm voice guiding us; here, the sudden cut is jolting, and though you know why Czerski is doing it, the technique grates when it's used for the fourth or fifth time in that chapter. We don't need the element of surprise to keep us interested in the topic - the topic is interesting enough not to require such artifice.

Firstly, it is very much a basic introduction to the small-scale physics of the everyday world, a subject anyone who has any level of education in the subject will be sufficiently familiar with that there wuill be nothing new within these pages.
Secondly, there are too many isntances where a subject is being covered, and the author jumps, without warning, section-break, or even neatly wrapping the preceeding thought, to some anecdote or historical background.

Topics flow in an orderly structure for most of the book. If there is a small criticism to make, I felt that the last chapter was slightly shallow compared to the rest (more description than explanation). Perhaps Czerski was rushing to finish, before setting off on her next adventure, but this didn't significantly detract from what was an excellent book.


Can recommend this book for the person who knows about physcis and for the person who doesn't.