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The fragrance of books nourishes the family styleIntroduction"Science in 1 Minute" is a popular science channel on YouTube, with more than 860,000 subscribers and 80 million total views, covering a wide variety of scientific topics, disseminating scientific knowledge while making viewers feel the fun and importance of science.
This book is a selection of the channel's content, which depicts exciting science stories in the form of comics, explaining science concisely and clearly, and giving readers a sense of the witty and interesting side of science. The book covers scientific topics that interest readers, such as "Is milk really good for health" and "What is the scientific principle behind the effect of coffee on fatigue", as well as mysterious topics such as "the influence of genes on men and women" and "the amazing evolutionary history of ......the eye".—Once you fall into the charm of these science stories, you will be completely attracted to science and feel that time flies!
About the Author
Lee Jae-bum is a South Korean and a popular YouTube science channel blogger on the "Science in 1 Minute". When he was studying in the United States, he was amazed by the magic of science and embarked on the road of sharing and popularizing science. In 2016, he opened the "1 Minute Science" channel on the Internet, and began to promote the fun and value of scientific knowledge to the public, with the mission of disseminating difficult scientific knowledge to the public in a simple and easy way. In 2022, the "1 Minute Science" channel has received more than 80 million hits.
About the Artist:
Choi Jun-suk, a Korean, majored in industrial craft design during college, and has been engaged in illustration and design for a long time. His paintings include "Korean History Train", "Xue Min-seok's Record of the Joseon Dynasty", "The Science of Stars and Light", etc.
About the translator
Luo Xiaojing, Master of Laws from Nanjing Normal University, went to South Korea for further study. He is now a full-time translator and has been involved in the translation of many works after returning to China. His translated works are accurate and vivid, and are well recognized and favored by readers.
Wonderful book review
Science in 1 Minute is one of the books I've read about basic science that is easy to understand and interesting. I have never been so interested in science, it has made me curious and exploratory.
Station B user is a little crooked.
When I opened the book, the content was more interesting and easier to understand than I expected, and the book covered a variety of scientific fields, and the reader could happily accumulate scientific knowledge. Just like the title of the book, I can read the book quickly in a short time without any burden. The author explains the topics that can arouse the interest of the public into science stories, which makes people more curious about science.
Douban reader a sauce.
Thanks to Science in 1 Minute, it opened a window for me to understand the world. The science stories in the book are super dense and engaging, from short to long, and bring all kinds of intellectual adventures to those who read it.
Korean reader Kim Sang-woo.
Table of Contents
1.Milk: Is drinking milk really good for your health?
2.Exercise: For the sake of the brain, start exercising now!
3.Meow: When a cat accosted a human.
4.Coffee: The principle behind 20 minutes of fatigue.
5.SNS: The smartphone that threatens our brain.
6.Eyes: The astonishing evolutionary history of the human eye.
7.Earth: The Legend of the Dull Blue Dot.
8.Dust: Harmful substances hidden in the air.
9.Genetics: Why do women live longer than men?
10.Telomeres: the secret of longevity that lobsters teach us.
11.Stress: Is stress harmless and not beneficial?
12.Time: The illusion of the passage of time.
Wonderful book excerpts
Preamble. Interesting reality – science.
In 2016, after the opening of the "1 Minute Science" channel, the program "Science Stories" was officially broadcast. Later, "Science Stories" was drawn into a webtoon and is now published as a book. The idea behind the creation of the "Science in One Minute" channel was that I believed that it was important for ordinary people to understand the knowledge of science that was previously only available to scientists and professionals. When I first experienced the wonder of science, I was shocked and even sighed, "Why doesn't anyone know about such important knowledge?" "Science is like a beam of light in a cave that illuminates the darkness.
However, there is no suitable way for these ideas of mine to be disseminated. Even if you say to a friend at the dinner table, "Ah, that means your genes are ......."Or say to your mother who is doing housework, "Mom, Homo sapiens is .......""They don't have the patience to listen, and they don't want to listen. In fact, I once tried to talk to a friend, but as soon as I opened my mouth, everyone had a look of lovelessness, and I had to give up. After that, I started to try to make science stories into ** and spread them to the public in this way. The reason why I named this channel "Science in 1 Minute" is because I don't think this kind of short ** of less than two minutes will give you the impression that science stories are very boring and long. Inserting a background in the middle of the strip and making the whole story of science easy to tell like a rap is the style of the channel. However, today, most of the ** in this channel are longer than 10 minutes, so fans often leave messages saying that the "1 minute" in "1 minute science" seems to be different from the "1 minute" duration of "me". Yes, time is illusory, and it is a relative concept.
In the process of making **, I really feel the relativity of time. It takes about two weeks to write a story, and two days to record and edit if you spend the whole day working hard. The theory of relativity applies to such moments. The two weeks it took to write a story were like two hours, and they passed quickly. On the other hand, two days of editing were as long as 200 million hours, and sometimes I felt like I might have fallen into a black hole. When it comes to falling into a black hole, it reminds me of a few embarrassing things that happened in the past. When I first started doing **, I always recorded in front of the wardrobe in the room, because the heavy clothes have a good sound absorption effect. However, one day I was recording with great interest**, and I was shouting loudly in front of the closet for a long time, and I was just about to take a break, when I looked back and saw that the door of my room was actually open, and my family was sitting in the living room. At the time, I was so ashamed of myself. I don't know if my mother would have thought at the time: "Oh, how did he become like this when he sent his son to study abroad?" "Recently, I was recording on the balcony after the door was closed, but there were new problems with recording on the balcony. At that time, the episode of "The Illusion of Time" was very popular, but there was a "stinging" noise from beginning to end, and some people even used the noise as a background**. These noises are actually the sounds of rain. It was the rainy season, so for 12 minutes, the sound of the rain coming from the balcony was recorded in its entirety. These nonsensical stories may sound a bit ridiculous to you, but I am satisfied. Isn't it a success that I was able to pass on scientific knowledge to everyone despite the lack of decent space and expensive equipment? In this way, success is also relative, isn't it?
The American writer Paul Hawken once said, "If the stars in the sky only appear once in a thousand years, then every time the stars appear, people will probably look up at the stars and be fascinated." However, the stars twinkle in the night sky every day, and people just watch them on TV. "No matter how new and important something is, if people see it too much, they don't want to know about it. When I talk about science stories in front of people, people seem to find me more curious than the science stories themselves, and they can't understand the importance and interest of science. At this time, the most common answer is "I am not interested in this kind of thing because of reality".
But what exactly is "reality"? Money? Poor beauty? If you really want to investigate it, the so-called "reality" is nothing more than an illusion in the mind. Moreover, this "reality" is constantly changing with the times and the environment. For Homo sapiens on Earth 200,000 years ago, money was nothing more than colored paper, and concrete buildings simply did not exist. In the future 200,000 years from now, we don't know what will be called "reality". Whether it's 200,000 years ago or 200,000 years later, gravity is persistent. For me, the things that are eternal are the real reality, rather than the things that change anytime and anywhere.
Therefore, I study and understand those realities called science. I believe that when people really learn about science, they will have a different perspective on the world. I look forward to the day when I see all the people on the planet looking up at the sky and immersing themselves in it.
Luckily, there are many friends on the Internet who are also fascinated by the fascination of science, which is why the book was published. Here, I would like to thank Cui Junshuo, the painter who drew my ** into a comic, and I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the staff of the publishing house. In order to publish this book smoothly, the relevant staff kept urging me to be lazy and procrastinating, and I put a lot of effort into it. Finally, I sincerely hope that through this book, readers will find it interesting in science.
1 minute science" Lee Jae-beom Yours sincerely.
August 2020.