Constable Colgan's Connectoscope: How One Thing Leads to Another - Softcover

Colgan, Stevyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908717831 ISBN 13: 9781908717832

Publisher: Unbound Digital, 2013

Synopsis

For many years we've known about Six Degrees of Separation: the idea that every person on the planet can be linked by a chain of just six individuals. Now, former Scotland Yard criminal intelligence officer Stevyn Colgan has designed a paper-based wireless device to do the same thing with facts – a kind of Six Degrees of Information.

Called the Connectoscope, it will teach you, among many other things, what humans taste like to robots, why there were bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover, how a tree became the New York Stock Exchange, why Bob the Builder has more fingers In Japan than in the UK, who the patron saint of medical records is, and how to make Superman gay.

Colgan sets out to prove that everything can be connected. As this dizzyingly fact-filled book shows, the fun lies in figuring out how.

About this title

About the Author

Stevyn Colgan spent thirty years as a police officer. But now he's one of the writers of the award-winning TV show QI and its sister show on BBC Radio 4, The Museum of Curiosity. In A Murder to Die For he brings his sense of humour and his policing experience together to create something that is definitely not your average murder mystery.

Edition details

• Publisher: Unbound Digital
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908717831
• ISBN 13: 9781908717832
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224