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Viruses are the world's most abundant life form, and now, when humanity is in the midst of a close encounter with their immense power, perhaps the most feared. But do we understand viruses? Possibly the most enigmatic of living things, they are sometimes not considered a life form at all...

Own the room with this hilarious collection of fact-tastic myth-busters and jaw-dropping trivia exploring science, history, sport and lesser-known facts from across the universe. Did you know that the Moon has a Bishop? That ostriches DON'T bury their heads in the sand? And that powdered rice was used as cement in the Great Wall of China? What do souls weigh? What can't 60% of the human population smell? And what on earth is rhinotillexomania? And the big one . . . are farts actually invisible? The answers to these questions are all here.

Revenons sur terre, à la terre, au sol, cette matière meuble sous nos pieds et nos bitumes. Les liens forts que nous entretenons avec les sols depuis des milliers d’années s’effilochent. Dans nos villes, nous n'apercevons presque plus leur surface, nous les connaissons de moins en moins. Dans ces chroniques, Tiphaine Chevallier propose de creuser et d'observer tout ce que les sols ont à nous offrir.