The Big Bang Rocket only needs a tiny square of newspaper to make an almighty ‘bang’! And how does it do that? Science of course! Wait come back… it’s fun science! All you have to do is tear a 3 inch square piece of newspaper pop it over the top of the rocket fasten it in place and throw it as far as you can. When it lands on the nose the paper will pop producing a surprisingly loud and powerful bang. It’s a great fun toy for any outdoor surface so that includes the park the garden or even the beach. What’s more all you need to make it work over and over again is that little square of newspaper. If anything it’ll make recycling an awful lot more fun than taking the bins out of a Wednesday night. So next time you’re heading out for a day in the park or on the beach then don’t forget to take the Big Bang Rocket with you. Guaranteed to upset the local wildlife and cause unnecessary furore amongst nearby gangsters the Big Bang Rocket is an endless well of explosive entertainment.

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Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home he can’t contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization – how we got from there being nothing at all to here being us. Bill Bryson’s challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us like geology chemistry and particle physics and see if there isn’t some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It’s not so much about what we know as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth or what a black hole is or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through time and space he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric competitive obsessive and foolish scientists like the painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like how much the Earth weighed but never bothered to tell anybody about many of his findings. In the company of such extraordinary people Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.

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A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization – how we got from there being nothing at all to here being us. ; ; His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us and see if there isn’t some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It’s not so much about what we know as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth or what a black hole is or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? ; ; On his travels through time and space Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.

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Sure to make your party go off with a bang

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