Book description
Why don’t hammer-throwers get dizzy? Could the world’s fastest swimmer
catch a jet-ski? How far can a human being run or cycle before they
drop? Which nutter invented the ski jump?
Glenn Murphy, author of Why Is Snot Green?
, answers these and other brilliant questions in this fascinating book
about the science of sport.
From running a marathon to beating your friends at basketball, from
negotiating a snowboard slalom track to pulling a backflip on a BMX,
find out everything you ever wanted to know about sports and games!
Become a whizz in science AND trounce your friends at your school sports
day. It’s like being in the Olympics with none of the boring bits!
Glenn Murphy received his masters in science communication from London's
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. He wrote his first
popular science book, Why Is Snot Green?, while managing the Explainer
team at the Science Museum in London. In 2007 he moved to the United
States. He now lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his
wife, Heather,and two unusually large and ill-tempered cats.
