Science in Fables

Do you like to find sea shells at the beach?

Do you like to look for bugs in the dirt?

Do you like to mix different things in the kitchen to see what happens?

Do you like to play in the playground?

Do you like to ask questions that adults do not know how to answer, even if they try to find it on the Internet?

Do you like science?

Most kids will answer yes to the first five questions, but will say no to the sixth. But did you realise that by looking at sea shells, finding insects, mixing things in the kitchen, playing on the swings, and questioning the world around you, you are actually being a scientist?

Science is cool and can be a lot of fun, but at school it can sometimes be really boring. Gunter Pauli has written 36 fables that will show you science as you have never seen it before. These stories talk about science in a way that will blow your mind!

For example, Gunter has written a story called The King of Hearts. In this story, a whale talks to a sea gull. The whale is sad because he would like to fly. But the sea gull makes him realize that he has the biggest heart in the world. In the story you will learn how the whale's heart is an incredible pump; pumping 2000 liters of blood with every beat!

Reading this story you will also discover that your heart is making electricity! Yes, right now! And you will learn how you can start to make electricity in your very own kitchen, simply by doing it in the same way that nature does.

Nature is amazing! It uses tiny amounts of energy to do some really amazing things. And it does these things without producing any waste. People also make electricity, but not half as well as nature does. Have you ever seen a smoke stack from a coal powered energy plant? Have you seen all of the black smoke that pours out of it? Have you ever seen a whale with a smoke stack and black smoke coming out of it?

There is a man named Jorge Reynolds, who inspired the story 'The King of Hearts'. He has a wonderful job. He travels around the oceans studying whales. His studies taught us about the electricity in the whales heart. Jorge has learned a lot about whales that we can use to help humans. This is the kind of work that scientists are doing every day.  Wouldn't that be fun?