Eaton's Modern Ready Reckoner

Essential Everyday Trivia

Thomas Eaton

• Publisher: 535
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788700832
• Subtopic: Mathematics Reference

'Outrageously addictive' -- Stephen Fry

Eaton's Modern Ready Reckoner revives the curiosities of old, mixing it with the delights and complexities of the 21st Century. A nostalgic gift book for the modern trivia-loving brainiac in your life, Eaton's Modern Ready Reckoner contains information on everything and anything, from digital algorithms, to weights and measures; SpaceX to interest rates; monarchs, presidents and rap stars. But not only that, it includes out-of-this world trivia as we head into the age of the Large Hadron Collider, of stem cell therapy, Bitcoin, and Netflix; of vaping, emojis and the hashtag; as well as updates on Reckoner classics from days of yore - including metric and imperial conversions; sunrise and sunset times across the world; and, perhaps more usefully, how to tell the height of a tree.

Compiled by quiz-buff and self-confessed 'collector of curiosities' Thomas Eaton, Eaton's Modern Ready Reckoner is a wonderful revival of a forgotten treasure trove of facts, figures and trivial delights!

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Museums of Curiosity
• Counting and Countering the Calories
• Google Rules the World (Almost)
• Homepage Doodling
• Personality Test
• Titans of Toys
• Oil: the Crude Facts
• Quaking in Our Boots
• Putting a New You Together
• First Tweets on Twitter
• And here is the Fake News
• The Tsar with the Dragon Tattoo
• People in Greenhouses…
• Long to Reign over Us
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• Going Round in Circles 1
• Greenwich Means Time
• Heritage Sos
• States in Stasis
• Imperial Measures
• Of Course I’ve Read it
• Cities on the Musical Map
• Filling the Empty Plinth
• What a Wonder-Filled World
• Gene Genies
• Digging the Past
• Millions on the Move
• Riot at the Rite
• Thinking more Clearly
• It’s Coming from Outer Space
• Dodgy Definitions
• Stars of Social Media
• Grand Theft Art
• Medical Myths
• Due to Unforeseen Circumstances…
• Stormy Weather
• Pet Pin-Ups
• The Fine Art of Being Wrong
• Eureka!
• The Jawbone of an Ass
• Get Off of My Cloud
• Going Round in Circles 2
• The Germans almost Certainly have a Word for it
• Is that your Final Answer?
• The Measure of Measurements
• The Origin of Super Species
• Fast Food Nations
• Jumping on the Banned Wagon
• Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown
• Architecture for Art’s Sake
• Not Single Spies, but Battalions
• Left on the Drawing Board
• Memorable Mnemonics
• #Activism in the Digital Age
• Recommendations for you: How Netflix Works
• Not for the Mantlepiece
• Face with Tears of Joy: an Emoji-nal Story
• Game of Clones
• Incredible Shrinking Lakes
• Jingles Ringing Bells
• Do you want Freedom Fries with that?
• Daddy, What Did you do in the Great Edit War?
• The World of 2030: 8 and a Half Billion People, Living in Megacities
• They’ve an Awful lot of Coffee in Brazil
• Bursting Bubbles
• How Tall is that Tree?
• Modern Minds: Six of the Best
• No One Left to talk to?
• Making a Meal of it
• The Real Twitterati
• Unsolved Mysteries of Science
• What are we Made of?
• Art Attack!
• Tractor Boys, Honest Men and an Old Lady
• Dem Bones
• Time on your Hands
• I Bet you think this Song is about you
• Fun with Flags
• Hastings, Agincourt… ain Jalut?
• It’s the Economy, Stupid
• You Say you want a Revolution
• Wildlife on the Brink
• Phish and Chips
• How Old are you Really?
• Where did Everybody Go?
• They Said it First
• Biting Off less than we can Chew
• Eurozone
• Dead Parrots and other Extinctions
• So Good they Named it Twice
• The Hand of God and the Teeth of Suarez
• The World’s Oldest (But Probably Not Funniest) Joke
• Dead and Unburied
• Mothers of Invention
• What’s My (Real) Name?
• The Truth is Out there
• Dead at 27
• Trump Inc.
• Don’t ask for these at the Library
• Istanbul, Not Constantinople
• Give ‘Em Enough Rope
• Hail to the Author
• The 21st Century in Quotes
• Borrowing from the Bard
• Calling Time on Disease
• Happy Accidents
• Keeping the Peace
• Power Mad
• In their Element
• An Offer you Can’t Refuse
• Ready Player One
• Not Quite Deadlier than the Male
• Going Underground
• Football’s Gone Mad (Again)
• Strangest Wars Ever Fought
• Mining for Mobiles
• Lecherous as a Monkey … or a Sparrow?
• Changing Songs in Mid-Stream
• Joining the Party
• Scent of a Celebrity
• Dressed to Thrill
• We’re all X-Men
• Decomposing Composers
• If Something can go Wrong…
• Nature’s Biggest Gatherings
• The Great Firewall of China
• Exit via the Kuiper Belt
• Short, Fat and Bald
• Going Round in Circles 3
• Large Hadron Collider: Science at (Just Under) the Speed of Light
• Stressed Out?
• It’s Getting Hot in Here
• Up in Smoke
• Is that your Final Answer?
• Coining it, Virtually
• Tyrannosaurus Wrecks: Mass Extinctions
• Perchance to Dream
• Remembrance of things Pasta
• Shattering the Glass Ceiling
• Rockin’ a Good Cause
• Putting Pedantry in its Place
• Going Round in Circles 4
• From Paypal to Payloads
• Unfinished Literary Business
• There’s No “I” in Team
• Cooking with Poo and Other Strange Titles
• Living Life on the Extremes
• Food, Inglorious Food
• How Many Planets are there?
• Menagerie of Misnomers
• Park and Ride
• Metric/Imperial Conversions
• From One Day to the Next
• How do you like them Apps?
• Space Oddities
• News (Censored)
• Give ’em Enough Rope
• Selected Sources