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Toasty!
All of our Ripley’s Twists are now out as ibooks, including Twists Space. Here’s a little more from Space, a look at the innermost planets of our solar system, Venus and Mercury. Though farther from the Sun than Mercury, Venus is even hotter (about 860°F), because it is blanketed by ...
Space Is A Busy Place
All of our Ripley’s Twists are now out as ibooks, including Twists Space. If you’re curious about the otherworldly, take a peek into the crashing chaos of our Solar System. Building a solar system isn’t a tidy job: after gravity pulled together our Sun and the planets, trillions of grains ...
Hide and Seek
All of our Ripley’s Twists are now out as ibooks, including Twists Wild Animals. Here’s another page spread from Wild Animals, one of my favorite books. More than 1.5 million types, or species, of animals have been found so far–but scientists are still looking for the other 28.5 million they ...
Meet The Uglies
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 · 1 Comment
All of our Ripley’s Twists are now out as ibooks, including Twists Wild Animals. Naked Mole-Rat Good looks don’t matter to these burrowing mammals. They’re nasty to look at, and nasty by nature: males kidnap youngsters from other colonies and keep them as slaves, forcing them to dig new tunnels. ...
High and Low
All of our Ripley’s Twists are now out as ebooks, including Twists Human Body. Breaking news! When it comes to bodies, none of us is 100 percent “normal.” The simple fact is every one of us is unique—different and totally special. From big noses to big toes, and bulgy brains ...
On the Court
Saturday, November 19, 2011 · 1 Comment
All of our Ripley’s Twists are now out as ebooks, including Twists Sports. More than 46 million Americans play volleyball and there are around 800 million players worldwide. In fact, soccer is the only sport that more people play across the globe. Like basketball, tennis, squash, and badminton, volleyball is ...
Rivers of ICE
All of our Ripley’s Twists are now out as ebooks, including Twists Extreme Earth. A glacier is a vast body of frozen water that flows downhill, like a river. There’s one important difference though—glaciers move sooooo slooooowly that you could sit and stare at one for ages, and not spot ...
Rising from the Deep!
All of our Ripley’s Twists are now out as ebooks, including Twists Oceans. If you could swim to the deepest parts of the ocean, you would be squashed to death in an instant by the huge weight of water above and around you. Sunlight can’t reach the deep, and an ...
Robot Parade!
All of our Ripley’s Twists are now out as ebooks, including Twists Mighty Machines. Open Mouths Sharper than a steak knife and bigger than a dagger, the teeth of the immense hunter dinosaurs were immense weapons. Other dinosaurs had broad, flat teeth that were able to crush bones to powder. ...
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