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A thrill-ride for curious minds. - John Rennie, editor-in-chief of Scientific American Robert Matthews has done a heroic job in revealing the science behind a broad and entertaining range of questions that real people ask, from whether it is better to walk in the rain than run (no, just about) to whether there is a universal definition of left and right (yes). Ideal fodder for the curious mind. - Roger Highfield, author of Can Reindeer Fly? and The Science of Harry Potter

"""A thrill-ride for curious minds."" - John Rennie, editor-in-chief of Scientific American ""Robert Matthews has done a heroic job in revealing the science behind a broad and entertaining range of questions that real people ask, from whether it is better to walk in the rain than run (no, just about) to whether there is a universal definition of left and right (yes). Ideal fodder for the curious mind."" - Roger Highfield, author of Can Reindeer Fly? and The Science of Harry Potter"

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Robert Matthews is Visiting Reader in Science at Aston University, Birmingham, in the UK. He has published pioneering research in fields ranging from code-breaking to the probability of coincidences, and won an Ig Nobel Prize for his studies of Murphy's Law, including the reasons why toast so often lands butter-side down. He is also an award-winning journalist who writes about science for many publications, including Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, Focus, and New Scientist. He lives in Oxford, UK.

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