Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments. From Zombie Kittens to Tickling Machines: The Most Outrageous Experiments from the History of Science - Softcover

Boese, Alex

 
9780752226743: Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments. From Zombie Kittens to Tickling Machines: The Most Outrageous Experiments from the History of Science
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0752226746 ISBN 13: 9780752226743
Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

When Tusko the Elephant woke in his pen on 3 August 1962, little did he know that he was about to be given the largest ever single dose of LSD . . .

Elephants on Acid is a wonderfully entertaining, authoritative collection of history's most bizarre experiments, from the 19th-century creation of zombie kittens to a University of Wisconsin study that answers, definitively, the question of whether women who play hard to get really are more desirable. As well as learning what happened to Tusko, you will discover the 1959 mathematical equation for the point at which chatter at a drinks party becomes loud; whether listening to Mozart makes children super-students; and the secret of how to sleep on planes . . .

If left to their own devices, would babies instinctively pick a well-balanced diet?

If you were unfortunate enough to fall down a disused mine shaft, would your dog run to fetch help?

Which really tastes better in a blind tasting -- Coke, or Pepsi?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alex Boese holds a master's degree in the history of science from the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Museum of Hoaxes, Hippo Eats Dwarf and Elephants on Acid and the creator and curator of the Museum of Hoaxes website. He lives near San Diego.

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Verlag
Macmillan Publishers International
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0752226746
ISBN 13 
9780752226743
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Anzahl der Seiten
304
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