Many people are interested in science and want to know as many fascinating facts as possible about the nature of things. However, dull scientific literature makes a person want to give up and do something more interesting—something that kindles the passion for learning rather than extinguishes it. In front of you is a unique collection of stories about nature, from which you will draw a vast amount of useful and simply entertaining information.
Contents:
00_00_Yuliy Wagner - Science for Everyone
00_01_Annotation
00_02_Contents
Chapter 1. Stories about Animals
01_01_Hydra
01_02_About the organs of digestion
01_03_Balloon (Globe-fish/Globeful organism)
01_04_How amoeba, the balloon organism, and hydra differ from one another
01_05_About the respiration of animals
01_06_About the organs of circulation
01_07_Why animals breathe
01_08_How a plant is similar to animals
01_09_How hydra is similar to a plant
01_10_About hydroids and jellyfish
01_11_Sexual and asexual reproduction
01_12_About animal eggs
01_13_About transformations of animals
01_14_About corals
01_15_About coral structures
01_16_About changes in animals
01_17_About the mammoth
01_18_About the skeleton, about organs of movement, and about the brain
01_19_What we learned about animals
Chapter 2. Stories about Air
02_01_Wind and air
02_02_Air takes up space
02_03_About how air can be compressed and how compressed air presses
02_04_How to tell that ordinary air presses on everything around it
02_05_Air presses equally in all directions
02_06_How air differs from stone and water, and why it presses equally in all directions
02_07_Why air presses and what blue sky is
02_08_About the force of air pressure
02_09_How people discovered the force of air pressure
02_10_Why atmospheric pressure on Earth changes constantly
02_11_How you can build a “air thermometer”
02_12_Why warm air rises up and cools
02_13_What happens to the water vapor of air when it rises up
02_14_About wind and about clouds
02_15_Where wind comes from and where it blows
02_16_How air moves during wind
02_17_How the air exhaled by animals differs from ordinary air
02_18_How to obtain carbon dioxide
02_19_About carbon dioxide and oxygen
02_20_How to obtain pure oxygen
02_21_How oxygen differs from carbonic acid, and where it comes from in plants
02_22_About nitrogen
02_23_How air warms the Earth
02_24_What we learned about air
Chapter 3. Stories about Water
03_01_Where mountain streams flow from
03_02_Why high mountains are covered with snow
03_03_What happens to water when it dries up
03_04_What happens to water vapor when it cools
03_05_About how snow in the mountains turns into ice
03_06_About how ice changes its shape
03_07_About icy rivers and icy rocks
03_08_About how water contracts when it cools, and expands again when it freezes
03_09_How rocky mountains crumble and how water washes gorges through them
03_10_About river deposits (sediment)
03_11_How rivers change the surface of the Earth
03_12_About springs (sources)
03_13_How water flowing underground washes out caves
03_14_About the dissolution in water of various substances and about crystals
03_15_Even more about how various substances dissolve in water
03_16_How to obtain perfectly clean water without impurities
03_17_About mineral water and how gases dissolve in water
03_18_About how water dissolves limestone
03_19_How water decorates caves
03_20_About the color of water
03_21_About the azure grotto
03_22_About precipitations around springs and about rivers that flow into the sea
03_23_About the water cycle and about salty sea water
03_24_About the sea’s work and why water is necessary for every animal
03_25_What we learned about water
Chapter 4. Stories about the Earth
04_01_About changes in mountains
04_02_Stone screes
04_03_That rocks are made of minerals, and how water and air build from one set of rocks other rocks
04_04_About the structure of the Earth, about internal heat, and about hot springs
04_05_About the eruption of molten rocks, and about volcanoes
04_06_About how the ancient Roman cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii perished
04_07_A walk to Vesuvius
04_08_How high the temperature is inside the Earth
04_09_How mountains formed on Earth and how they grow
04_10_About marine deposits, about petrified animals and plants, and about changes in the world ocean’s level
04_11_About layers of the Earth that form mountains
04_12_About the future of the Earth and other planets
04_13_About how clusters of plants in the ground turn into coal
04_14_About heating wood without air and about marsh gas
04_15_About peat
04_16_About how peat turns into coal, and coal into graphite and diamonds
04_17_About the origin of diamonds
04_18_About simple substances and about oxides
04_19_About metals in various minerals
04_20_About ores, and about extracting metals from ores
04_21_About gold