Sun-asuarus! Explore the science of solar power with this awesome walking robot kit. Build the kit using the enclosed solar panel & parts. Then customise your robot with recycled materials from around the house. Use this kit to explore electricity & circuits part of the KS 1 2 & 3 National curriculum. Build your own solar-powered walking robot Use household materials to make the robot your own See green power in action Experiment with solar cells & your own designs Box contains: 1 x solar panel with wires 1 x solar panel holder plate 1 x support arm 1 x gear case body with motor & cams installed 2 x arms 2 x leg links 2 x legs 2 x feet 2 x terminal caps 2 x body template support clips washer screws screws double sided adhesive foam detailed instructions. Also required but not included: A small crosshead screwdriver an empty paper cup & 2 forks. Not suitable for children under 36 months due to small parts. ...

A simple remote control allows anyone to become a stunt driver. Watch as the buggy performs head spins & its wheels light up as you race it along the floor. The Stunt Buggy is a great way to study forces as part of the KS4 science curriculum. Two button controller is simple to operate Large studded wheels are able to tackle different surfaces Races dances & spins Bright headlamp & flashing coloured lights for use in the dark Not suitable for children under 36 months due to small parts. ...

Build a cheerful robot that waves its arms as it rolls.

Includes:: motor gears axels & wheels which are secured

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When a wizardly experiment goes adrift the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Universe of course is our own. & Roundworld is Earth. As the wizards watch their accidental creation grow we follow the story of our universe from the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the Internet & beyond. Through this original Terry Pratchett story (with intervening chapters from Cohen & Stewart) we discover how puny & insignificant individual lives are against a cosmic backdrop of creation & disaster. Yet paradoxically we see how the richness of a universe based on rules has led to a complex world & at least one species that tried to get a grip of what was going on. ...

When a wizardly experiment goes adrift the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Universe of course is our own. & Roundworld is Earth. As the wizards watch their accidental creation grow we follow the story of our universe from the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the internet & beyond. Through this original Terry Pratchett story (with intervening chapters from Cohen & Stewart) we discover how puny & insignificant individual lives are against a cosmic backdrop of creation & disaster. Yet paradoxically we see how the richness of a universe based on rules has led to a complex world & at least one species that tried to get a grip of what was going on. ...

Acclaimed The Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation & evolution of our universe a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction narrative about Big Science. In The Science of Discworld II: The Globe our authors join forces again to see just what happens when the wizards meddle with history in a battle against the elves for the future of humanity on Earth. London is replaced by a dozy Neanderthal village. The Renaissance is given a push. The role of fat women in art is developed. & one very famous playwright gets born & writes The Play. Weaving together a fast-paced Discworld novelette with cutting-edge scientific commentary on the evolution & development of the human mind culture language art & science The Globe presents a fascinating & brilliantly original view of the world we live in. The scene of the final epic battle is the first production of A Midsummer's Night Dream at the Globe Theatre. ...

Roundworld is in trouble again & this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator
- they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now it's all gone wrong
- Victorian England has stagnated & the pace of progress would embarrass a limping snail. Unless something drastic is done there won't be time for anyone to invent spaceflight & the human race will be turned into ice-pops. Why though did history come adrift? Was it Sir Arthur Nightingale's dismal book about natural selection? Or was it the devastating response by an obscure country vicar called Charles Darwin whose bestselling Theology of Species" made it impossible to refute the divine design of living creatures? Either way it's no easy task to change history as the wizards discover to their cost. Can the God of Evolution come to humanity's aid & ensure Darwin writes a very different book? & who stopped him writing it in the first place?"

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The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series & this time around dealing with The Really Big Questions Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story. Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart & biologist Jack Cohen to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction cutting-edge science & philosophy. Marjorie Daw is a librarian & takes her job
- & indeed the truth of words
- very seriously. She doesn't know it but her world & ours
- Roundworld
- is in big trouble. On Discworld a colossal row is brewing. The Wizards of Unseen University feel responsible for Roundworld (as one would for a pet gerbil). After all they brought it into existence by bungling an experiment in Quantum Thaumo Dynamics. But legal action is being brought against them by Omnians who say that the Wizards' god-like actions make a mockery of their noble religion. As the finest legal brains in Discworld (a zombie & a priest) gird their loins to do battle
- & when the Great Big Thing in the High Energy Magic Laboratory is switched on
- Marjorie Daw finds herself thrown across the multiverse & right in the middle of the whole explosive affair. As God the Universe & frankly Everything Else is investigated by the trio you can expect world-bearing elephants quantum gravity in the Escher-verse evolutionary design eternal inflation dark matter disbelief systems
- & an in-depth study of how to invent a better mousetrap.






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The science behind the gadgets exploits & enemies of the worlds greatest spy From the sleek Aston Martin that spits out bullets nails & passengers at the push of a button to the microjet that makes hairpin turns to avoid a heat-seeking missile the science & technology of James Bond films have kept millions of movie fans guessing for decades. Are these amazing feats & gadgets truly possible? The Science of James Bond takes you on a fascinating excursion through the true science that underlies Bonds most fantastic & off-the-wall accoutrements. The acclaimed science-fiction authors Lois Gresh & Robert Weinberg provide a highly entertaining informative look at the real-world achievements & brilliant imaginations behind such singular Bond gadgets as the buzz-saw Rolex the car that turns into a submarine & the ever-popular rocket-firing cigarette. They examine hundreds of Q Divisions ingenious inventions; analyze Bonds astonishing battles beneath the earth & sea in the skies & even in outer space; & ask intriguing questions that lead to enlightening discussions about the limits of science the laws of nature & the future of technology. Filled with entertaining anecdotes from Bond movie shoots & supplemented with tech" ratings for all of the Bond movies The Science of James Bond separates scientific fact from film fantasy--with some very surprising results." ...

Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential thinkers of our time yet his views are often misunderstood. In this previously unpublished series of interviews Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic & important ideas concerning language human nature & politics. In dialogue with James Mc Gilvray Professor of Philosophy at Mc Gill University Chomsky takes up a wide variety of topics
- the nature of language the philosophies of language & mind morality & universality science & common sense & the evolution of language. Mc Gilvrays extensive commentary helps make this incisive set of interviews accessible to a variety of readers. The volume is essential reading for those involved in the study of language & mind as well as anyone with an interest in Chomskys ideas.
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