Introduction -- How to Use This Book -- Being a Good Scientist -- Increasing Your Understanding -- Using This Book to Do a Science Fair Project -- A Word of Warning -- Weird Substances: Slip, Ooze, and Creep -- Slime -- Quicksand -- Curved Water -- Dry Ice -- Slime Molds -- Moving "Lava" -- Weird Plants: Way to Grow -- The Eyes Have It -- Insect Eaters -- Spore Losers -- "Corpse Flower" -- Epiphytes and Stranglers -- Cacti -- Weird Animals: No Pets Allowed -- Electric Eel -- Mudskippers -- Weird Ants -- Banana Slug -- Dung Beetles -- Naked Mole Rats -- Gone Batty -- Weird Microbes: The Good, the Bad, the Smelly -- Smelly Feet -- Early Risers -- Galdieria Sulphuraria -- Weird Weather: Ball Lightning, Rogue Waves, and Twisting Tornadoes -- The Perfect Storm -- Ball Lightning -- Extreme Wind -- Tornadoes -- Weird Earth: Geysers, Caves, and Other Strange Formations -- Geysers -- Weird Caves -- Weird Rocks -- Weird Sights: Mirages, Northern Lights, and Illusions -- Mirages -- Aurora Borealis -- Optical Illusions -- Weird Sounds: High and Low -- Doggy Do -- Aeolian Sounds -- Playing Glasses -- Things That Go Bump in the Night -- Listen to Yourself -- Weird Physics: Fact or Fiction? -- Relativity and Time Travel -- Worm Holes and Black Holes -- Antimatter.
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