Is That a Big Number is now a book, published by Oxford University Press. (Google ISBN 0198821220 to find many online booksellers). Although there is serious purpose behind the book - to explore how we think about numbers and how we can understand big numbers - it’s written in a light and engaging style.
Entertaining, full of practical examples, and memorable concepts, Is That A Big Number? renews our relationship with numeracy. If numbers are the musical notes with which the symphony of the universe is written, and you’re struggling to hear the tune, then this is the book to get you humming again.
The 1954 horror/science fiction film
Them!
featured terrifying giant ants. Could such creatures really exist? Of would the square-cube law defeat them? Read on …
http://www.andrewcaelliott.com/explorations/2016/11/13/beware-the-giant-ants-or-not-
Jules Verne sent Phileas Fogg around the world in 80 days, but how far is that anyway? How fast would he have had to travel? How long would it take today to go around the world?
http://www.andrewcaelliott.com/explorations/2017/3/21/around-the-world-in-how-long