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 enlarge | Author: Marc Abrahams
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
Category: Book
Buy Used: $2.21
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 361553
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0716730944
Dewey Decimal Number: 502.07
EAN: 9780716730941
ASIN: 0716730944
Publication Date: September 15, 1997
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 Scientists are humans too. And quite good pranksters June 30, 1999
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
The Annals of Improbable Research is an institution by itself. A journal where Nobel Prize Winners amongst others write on the lighter side of science. Funny essays, stupid experiments, and completely non-sense conclusions, all of them scientifically backed up and explained. This Book collect some of the finest pearls that have appeared in the magazine and lets you wanting more. This book is the ultimate proof that your average Nobel Prize Winner can be a funny guy, and be able to laugh at himself and his work. Gives you a different (and funny) vision of science and scientists, by some of the best amongst them. A Definitive must buy if you are, even only remotly, linked to science, investigation, or technology. Your laughing source for when your experiment is going wrong at 3 a.m.
The funniest book I have ever read. October 27, 1997
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Journalistic disclaimer: I am the 'TFD' on page 67, under 'Sleep Research Update'. If you have any sense of humour whatsoever, this book is for you. Having just returned from Cambridge (our fair city), where I led the Historians for Feynman and Tanna Tuva as Queen of Gravitation at this years' Ig Nobels, I can promise you no end of Cosmic Giggles. Possibly the only book in history with blurbs from the Car Talk guys, a Nobel Prize winner, and the most glorious Martin Gardiner. Parents of small children: listen up! You cannot afford to miss the classic 'Taxonomy of Barney', much less 'The Aerodynamics of Potato(e) Chips'. Too funny for words.
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