Book description
In STUFF THAT SCARES YOUR PANTS OFF! Glenn Murphy shows us that it is
OK to be scared and that there are very good reasons why we are able to
feel fear. He looks closely at our most common fears, including natural
disasters, predators, spiders, disease, needles, dentists, crashes,
darkness, speaking in public, heights, ghosts and monsters, to show us
how much of that fear is perhaps unnecessary. The result is a fun,
carefully pitched, popular-science title that mixes great true-life
stories with the psychology of fear, the statistical probabilities of
things happening and a lot of reassurance. Before moving to the US in
2007, Glenn Murphy worked at the Science Museum in London, recruiting,
training and overseeing the management of the 75-strong team of dynamic,
bubbly science communicators who perform shows and interact with the
public in the galleries. He now lives in North Carolina with his wife.
