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The Book of Life Volume 3: EXTRA 1000 EXTRAORDINARY FACTS: A Journey Through Science, History, Nature, and the Human Experience
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Series: The Infinite Knowledge, Book 3
Dictionaries & EncyclopediasHistory & Philosophy of Science
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ISBN13: 9798196288296
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 10 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 10 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The universe is not stranger than we imagine. It is stranger than we can imagine.
In this third volume of the acclaimed series, Roy Shiba plunges deeper than ever into the weirdest corners of reality-from the quantum foam where particles exist in two places at once to the deep ocean trenches where life thrives without sunlight, from the iron rain of exoplanets to the neural correlates of meditation.
In this third volume of the acclaimed series, Roy Shiba plunges deeper than ever into the weirdest corners of reality-from the quantum foam where particles exist in two places at once to the deep ocean trenches where life thrives without sunlight, from the iron rain of exoplanets to the neural correlates of meditation.
THE BOOK OF LIFE VOLUME 3 delivers another 1,000 extraordinary facts that will shatter your assumptions and expand your wonder. Each fact is a trapdoor-stand on it, and it opens into a deeper layer of mystery.
Inside these pages, you will discover:
Praise for The Book of Life series:
Wonder is not a state of awe-it is a discipline of attention. - Roy Shiba
A masterpiece of curiosity. Every page delivers something you didn't know you needed to know.
Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how much we know-and how much we don't.
Keep wondering.
Inside these pages, you will discover:
- Why a single electron can pass through two slits at the same time-and what that means for reality itself
- The organism that survives 3 million rads of radiation, 122 C heat, and the vacuum of space
- Why Neanderthals had larger brains than us-and how their DNA lives on in your body
- The exoplanet where glass rains sideways at 7,000 mph
- What happens in your brain during meditation, hypnosis, and lucid dreaming
- The truth about the Voynich Manuscript, the Wow! signal, and the Dyatlov Pass incident
- How CRISPR, xenobots, and brain-computer interfaces will transform humanity before 2050
Praise for The Book of Life series:
Wonder is not a state of awe-it is a discipline of attention. - Roy Shiba
A masterpiece of curiosity. Every page delivers something you didn't know you needed to know.
Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how much we know-and how much we don't.
Keep wondering.
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