Your Head Shape Reveals Your Personality!: Science's Biggest Mistakes about the Human Body

by Christine Zuchora-Walske, Intuitive (Read by)

Overview

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Do your eyes send out light like headlights? Does your liver create blood? Do bumps on your head tell what's inside your brain? At one time, science supported wild notions like these! But later studies proved these ideas were nonsense. Discover science's biggest mistakes and oddest assumptions about the human body, and see how scientific thought changed over time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512475470
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/01/2017
Series:	Science Gets It Wrong
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	880L (what's this?)
File size:	54 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	9 - 10 Years

About the Author

Christine Zuchora-Walske grew up—and eventually settled down—in Minneapolis. But as a young adult, she spent some time gallivanting elsewhere, including the University of Notre Dame, London, the University of Denver, and a small town in the cornfields of Illinois.

Along the way she discovered a love for reading, writing, and inquiry—and a desire to make a career of those activities. For almost twenty years now, Christine has been writing and editing books and magazine articles for children and their parents. She began as an editor with the Cricket family of children's magazines. She ventured to the Lerner Group next, and then Meadowbrook Press. After having two children, she became a freelance editor and writer.

Christine's author credits are many and varied. They include crafts and puzzles; a monthly column in which she impersonated a praying mantis; natural science titles for beginning readers; books exploring countries around the world; a debate on the pros and cons of Internet censorship; and books on pregnancy and parenting. Christine has also edited hundreds of articles and books in many genres and for all ages.

Christine is especially fond of science and history. But she loves all kinds of knowledge and literature. She never tires of learning new things, and she gets a kick out of trading knowledge with others.

Table of Contents

Introduction 4

Beware: Bad Smells Can Kill You 6

A Bloody Mess 10

Your Eyes Are Headlights 12

You Can judge a Book by Its Cover 14

Your Skull Shows What's in Your Brain 16

Mind Your P's and Q's! 18 You Put Your Left Brain In, You Put Your Right Brain Out 20

Near-Death Experiences Prove There's Life after Death 22

Pregnant? Watch Out for … Everything 24

Try Radiation for a Healthful Glow 26

Humans Evolved from the Apes You See at the Zoo 28

Source Notes 30

Further Information 31

Index 32

Editorial Reviews

"For hundreds of years people have been trying to figure out how the human body works and how to keep it well. Because they had to rely on observations, questioning, and simple tests, sometimes they got it wrong. As methods and equipment improved, scientists discovered new facts and proved old ideas to be false. Each myth is discussed on a two-page spread; photographs and drawings illustrate the text. The writing is succinct and will keep readers interested. Captions and colorful sidebars provide additional information; highlighted words are defined in bubbles at the bottom of the page. There are free educational resources for teachers and librarians. This series is very entertaining while teaching science; it will appeal to all types of readers."—School Library Connection

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