Why Do Onions Make Me Cry?: Answers to Everyday Science Questions You’ve Always Wanted to Ask

Jay Ingram, a Discovery Channel host and writer, provides answers to questions like déjà vu, blinking, yawn contagiousness, and brain usage. This book is a combined and abridged edition of The Science of Why and The Science of Why2.

Jay Ingram’s illustrated guide to everyday life answers scientific uncertainties like the full moon, fingernail growth, and color dreams. Combining the wit of What If? by Randall Munroe and the accessible science smarts of ASAP Science, the book explores supernatural, human body, animal kingdom, and natural world. It includes fun facts, myth busters, and line drawings to delight and surprise science enthusiasts. Ingram tackles questions like the myth of Loch Ness, silly questions like why pee smells like asparagus, serious ones like why time speeds up as we age, and frustrating ones like why mosquitoes love us.