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FREE FIRST CHAPTER: Constable Colgan's Connectoscope: How one thing leads to another
For many years we've known about Six Degrees of the idea that every person on the planet can be linked by a chain of just six individuals. Now, former Scotland Yard criminal intelligence officer Stevyn Colgan has designed a paper-based wireless device to do the same thing with facts - a kind of Six Degrees of Information. Called the Connectoscope, it contains 32 'Investigations' that find a way of linking three apparently unconnected things, like Elvis, fingerprints and leprosy. Or dolphins, Dutch courage and the White Cliffs of Dover.
Over the course of these journeys, the reader will learn what humans taste like to robots, how a tree became the New York Stock Exchange, why Bob the Builder has more fingers In Japan than in the UK, who the patron saint of medical records is, how to make Superman gay and why the internet weighs the same as a large strawberry. Colgan sets out to prove that everything and anything can be connected if you look hard enough.
As this dizzyingly fact-filled book shows, the fun lies in figuring out how. - Sir Bruce Forsyth was born before Anne Frank. - Opening credits for The Sweeney were made by one of the Dambusters aircrew. - 84% of people think they have more friends than they do. - A third of all marsupial species live in Central and South America. - In Ecuador in 1967, a brand of foot powder was elected mayor. - The most complex word in English language is 'set'. It has 194 different uses. - Evidence suggests that it may rain diamonds on the planets Uranus and Neptune. - Hitler really did only have one ball.
Over the course of these journeys, the reader will learn what humans taste like to robots, how a tree became the New York Stock Exchange, why Bob the Builder has more fingers In Japan than in the UK, who the patron saint of medical records is, how to make Superman gay and why the internet weighs the same as a large strawberry. Colgan sets out to prove that everything and anything can be connected if you look hard enough.
As this dizzyingly fact-filled book shows, the fun lies in figuring out how. - Sir Bruce Forsyth was born before Anne Frank. - Opening credits for The Sweeney were made by one of the Dambusters aircrew. - 84% of people think they have more friends than they do. - A third of all marsupial species live in Central and South America. - In Ecuador in 1967, a brand of foot powder was elected mayor. - The most complex word in English language is 'set'. It has 194 different uses. - Evidence suggests that it may rain diamonds on the planets Uranus and Neptune. - Hitler really did only have one ball.
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Published September 19, 2024
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Stevyn Colgan
17 books61 followersAuthor, illustrator, songwriter and public speaker. 'QI' elf, 'Museum of Curiosity' goblin, Cornish Pisky and tea aficionado. Ex-chef, ex-copper, occasionally X-rated.
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