The Times On This Day is a fascinating delve into often significant, and sometimes unusual, moments throughout history and a sure fire way to grow your general knowledge.
Grow your general knowledge with Booko: On This Day
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#tuesdaychat
With the weather warming up, there’s nothing better than a walk along the river listening to a great podcast. What’s your go to podcast at the moment? Ours is Second Life.
Grow your general knowledge with Booko: 1423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over
Bees can play football. Books used to be put on shelves with their spines facing inwards. A German airline allows an extra kilo of hand luggage, provided it’s books. Who knew? QI knew and you can too in 1423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over.
Monday Inspo
This week we are diving back into the wonderful world of podcasts and sharing a bunch of new books that have recently been the topic of a podcast or two. But for today, we have these wise words for you.
Grow your general knowledge with Booko: How Food Works
How Food Works brings the science of food to life. Through a highly visual approach that uses bold infographics, explore the good, the bad, the confusing, and the trending world of food.
Happy Weekend
It’s the end of another week and now time for a well deserved rest. Time to pack up the desk, pop your notebook and pen away and take some time to go on a walk, read a book and have a lovely cuppa ☕.
Grow your general knowledge with Booko: The Hidden Facts of Fashion
The Hidden Facts of Fashion is not just a book of random facts – it’s a combination of fashion, fun, surprise, knowledge, and helpful hacks.
Grow your general knowledge with Booko: The Big World of Fun Facts
Want to know which nation is ruled by a dentist-turned-dictator? Where to find taxis shaped like coconuts? And who watches competitive cockroach racing? Then The Big World of Fun Facts is the book for you!
The pursuit of ignorance
What does real scientific work look like? As neuroscientist Stuart Firestein jokes: It looks a lot less like the scientific method and a lot more like “farting around … in the dark.” We love this witty ted talk.
Grow your general knowledge with Booko: Stretch
Today’s book is a little bit of a different take on growing our general knowledge. Using captivating stories to illustrate research in psychology and management, Rice University professor Scott Sonenshein examines in his hugely popular book Stretch, why some people and organisations succeed with so little, while others fail with so much.
