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Better Living Through Science by Mark Frary

bardicbear's review

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3.0

This was a fairly quick read and I found it quite enjoyable. It offers tips on how to use science to tackle common tasks in real life such as both preventing and removing icy buildup on your car windshield. Other tips include things like how to prevent food spoilage, eliminate household odors, and help cakes and bread rise when baking. My one complaint is that several of the sections deal more with math than science. These are mostly tips at how to be better at games like poker and risk that mostly deal with probability and while I found it interesting to read I usually don't think of math as a science. The two are certainly interconnected but I feel like math is more a tool for use in science than a separate science itself.
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