Does Farting Make You Faster?--------pan macmillan
New from the author of the best-selling Why is Snot Green? and How Loud Can you Burp?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
karate-kicking through concrete 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!
