Frightening Light

Horrible Science

by Nick Arnold

Science with the squishy bits left in! What stops your eyeballs from falling out? Why can dead bodies make ghostly glowing lights? How can a laser beam sizzle human flesh? Get the awful answers in "Frightening Light".

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Childrens, Humor, Physics, Collections, Comics

156 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Nick Arnold is the author of the award winning series, Horrible Science and Wild Lives. Arnold's first published works appeared as a result of a project he was working on at the University of North London, when he was trying to teach young children. A positive review was written about him, and he started to write the "Horrible Science" books. His books are illustrated by Tony De Saulles.

Reviews

[Ehsan'Shokraie' · Rating 5 out of 5]

مجموعه علوم ترسناک,مسیر زندگی من رو عوض کرد,وقتی که در 12سالگی اولین کتابش رو در دست گرفتم شاید هرگز نمیدونستم خواندن این کتابا علاوه بر لذت بخش بودن و ظرافت طنز و مطالبش, دیدی به من بده که در مسائل اکادمیک زندگیم فوق العاده کمک کننده باشه.علوم ترسناک فوق العادس!

[PEANUT · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5

[Mohammad Hosein · Rating 3 out of 5]

هو المحبوب
اولین اثر علوم ترسناکی که خریدم! فکر کنم قریب به ۱۰ بار خوندمش...

[Rainier · Rating 4 out of 5]

(Dictated to mom)

This book teaches you about eyeballs, not what it said it teaches. It said it teaches about light, but it was wrong. It teaches you about eyeballs. Yes, eyeballs! Plus, light bounces off a reflective angle. Oh I recommend this book to ophthalmologists, and physicists. And plus every human has 5.5 volts of electricity in the lungs.

[Luke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Science with the squishy bits left in! What stops your eyeballs from falling out? Why can dead bodies make ghostly glowing lights? How can a laser beam sizzle human flesh? Get the awful answers in "Frightening Light".

Once again another silly but funny and clever journey into the world of horrible science, this time on the topic of light, the thing we all take for granted because we know that the sun will always rise and thanks to electricity and fire we have an almost constant source that we believe will forever be around. But light is frightening and powerful! And one day the light we call the sun will die and will this plant, so it's not eternal. But that's ok because while we have it we can use it, to light our homes and power our star ships as we cross space, using light sails that catch photons from the light and use that to push our ships through space. The amazing things we can do with light is amazing so would should never take it for granted! As we don't know how lucky we are because without it we wouldn't be here, so next time you go outside on a sunny day, don't look directly at the sun that would be unwise, but thank the sun for giving you life and that tan you've been chasing.

4/5 Star GoodReads ⭐⭐⭐⭐

90/100 Bright Ideas 💡 ✨ 😎

[Unagna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Io con le Brutte storie ci sono cresciuta. Vedere questo libro nel bookshop di un museo, a poco più di 3 euro, è stato un tuffo nel passato. Ed ho di nuovo 9 anni.

Alcuni concetti sono difficili, e non c'è la frizzantezza di Terry Deary, ma è il metodo con cui è pensato questo libro che mi piace tanto tanto. E poi l'ottica mi ha sempre fatto schifo, ma le storie degli scienziati mi piacciono un sacco.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 4 out of 5]

190 - 2019

[Charliiey Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read to my nine-year-old

[Zeal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book! I now know so much about light such as photons, waves, speed and I also know who Thomas Young was, Sir Isaac Newton's dog's name (Diamond), what kinds of gross stuff Isaac did to prove his theories on light (e.g. sticking something like a toothpick in his eyeball to change its shape - ewww!) and heaps more! Go Horrible Science!!!

[Mao Mao · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this book because it has a lot of information about light and how the eyes work. It also has a story about a Super-Photon. Truth be told, I had once wondered what particles quarks, leptons, gluons, electrons, and photons were made of.

[Agnik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Has some fun facts, really useful for homeworks and exam revision, although there are some pretty gross facts like how Isaac Newton stuck a toothpick in his eye as an experiment with colours 'shudder'.

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this about 6 months ago. In the greenhouse. It was the second Horrible Science book that I ever read. It was also about eyeballs, not just light.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

519 - 2016

[Ilib4kids]

ILL Horrible Science

[صان · Rating 4 out of 5]

اولین کتابی که از این مجموعه خوندم. اگه بچه ای دور و برتون هست که دوسش دارین، ازین سری براش بخرین!

[Omi Dev]

It's very good you know