The element in the room: science-y stuff staring you in the face

If you’re familiar with the Festival of the spoken nerd then you’ll already know the comedic trio of Helen Arney, Steve Mould and Matt Parker. For those not in the know, this team of intrepid science popularisers has been taking maths and science onto the stage for the last seven years, amusing audiences with some of the weird and wonderful things that the scientific method has uncovered. This book takes elements of the stage show – minus Parker’s contribution as chief maths nerd, who had to bow out owing to other writing commitments – and introduces them as a series of short, standalone stories.