This book has a very long title. Also, it didn’t answer the most persistent rumors (stuff like where Jimmy Hoffa ended up). At least not in my opinion.
It’s a cute book of science questions with answers and cute drawings. Each question gets a couple hundred words devoted to it, taking about four or five pages each with the drawings. There’s nothing too deep (we aren’t explaining string theory here or anything like that). It took me about forty-five minutes to read the whole thing, spread out over two days. I’m not one hundred percent clear who the audience for this book is supposed, having never listened (or really known about) the AsapSCIENCE blog/youtube channel/whatever. A lot of the questions seem to be ones my six year old would ask (Can sneezing pop your eyeballs out? Why do we itch? Where does all the light go when you turn off the lights?) but then there are others that really aren’t kid based (The science of morning wood), so maybe the audience is meant to be teenagers? Adults with a recreational interest in science? It struck me like a book to leave out in a waiting area because everything is chicken-nugget sized.
I don’t know if I learned anything from the book though. But then again, I have a pretty solid natural science background đŸ˜‰
AsapSCIENCE … by Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown went on sale March 17, 2015.
I received a copy free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.