![]() The Where, The Why, and The How is the authors’ attempt to revel in those “mysteries that can’t be entirely explained in a few mouse clicks.” Volvovski and her coauthors selected 75 not quite answerable questions-from “Where did life come from?” to “Why do cats purr?” to “How does gravity work?”-and let artists and scientists loose on them. In the case of the egg, they say, ”The most fun, the period of wonder and funny guesses, was lost as soon as the 3G network kicked in.” They also fit into a nest better this way.īut Volvovski, Rothman and Lamothe, all partners in the design firm ALSO, see this quick answer-finding as a negative at times. ![]() Eggs are oblong, as opposed to spherical, so that they roll in a contained circle (less chance for wandering eggs). Why, for instance, are eggs oval-shaped? The authors wondered-and, in a matter of seconds, there was the answer, served up in the form of a Wikipedia entry. If you want to know anything, just Google it.” “We carry devices that fit in our pockets but contain the entirety of human knowledge. “Today we’re spoiled with an abundance of information,” write Jenny Volvovski, Julia Rothman and Matt Lamothe, in their latest book, The Where, The Why, and The How. What drives plate tectonics? Illustrated by Marc Bell. ![]()
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