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Author: Lara Pauline Karpenko Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 047213017X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 311
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A fascinating look at scientific inquiry during the Victorian period and the shifting boundary between mainstream and unorthodox sciences of the time
Author: Lara Pauline Karpenko Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 047213017X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 311
Book Description
A fascinating look at scientific inquiry during the Victorian period and the shifting boundary between mainstream and unorthodox sciences of the time
Author: Editors of Portable Press Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1684120101 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 402
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This entertaining compendium of bite-sized articles reveals the stranger-than-sci-fi world of strange science. From the oddest theories to the most astounding discoveries to the biggest blunders, Strange Science has all the facts your professors didn't teach you in science class. It's packed with earth-shattering eurekas, outlandish inventions, silly “scientific” studies, and the stories behind the weirdos who made it all happen. Put on your lab coat and get ready to discover . . . One dentist's quest to clone John Lennon How to hypnotize a chicken Real-life time travelers (or so they claim) The seven-year-long study that found earthquakes are not caused by catfish waving their tails . . . and other breakthrough findings Plus you’ll discover unbelievable inventions; the freakiest franken-foods scientists have created; some of Hollywood’s worst on-screen science blunders; and more! This amazing volume from the Bathroom Readers’ Institute contains the strangest short science articles from dozens of Bathroom Readers, along with fifty all-new pages.
Author: David K. Randall Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393083934 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 172
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An engrossing examination of the science behind the little-known world of sleep. Like many of us, journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought. That is, until he began sleepwalking. One midnight crash into a hallway wall sent him on an investigation into the strange science of sleep. In Dreamland, Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third of our lives. Taking readers from military battlefields to children’s bedrooms, Dreamland shows that sleep isn't as simple as it seems. Why did the results of one sleep study change the bookmakers’ odds for certain Monday Night Football games? Do women sleep differently than men? And if you happen to kill someone while you are sleepwalking, does that count as murder? This book is a tour of the often odd, sometimes disturbing, and always fascinating things that go on in the peculiar world of sleep. You’ll never look at your pillow the same way again.
Author: Publications International Ltd Publisher: Book of ISBN: 9781640308336 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 0
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Packed with hundreds of articles on the most interesting things that ever happened in science. Plus a few things that didn't. Filled with both pragmatic, commonsense explanations and outrageous revelations, Strange but True Science is packed with articles on all things scientific. Each chapter takes an intriguing subject - medical science, pets and animals, consumer gadgets, astronomy, food, mad scientists, the human body - and ferrets out the strange stories and lesser known truths.
Author: Scott Morse Publisher: ISBN: 9781600108884 Category : Comic books, strips, etc Languages : en Pages : 0
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Join award-winning storyteller Scott Morse as he hurtles the varied worlds of our popular culture through time and space, their collision resulting in a most unique amalgam of STRANGE SCIENCE FANTASY! Untold tales of gods like the Headlight, the Shogunaut, the Projectionist, G.I.Gantic, and the Foolish Fling will merge into a fantastic new tome of pop-culture as religion, and you, dear readers, will be the first to take communion! Also, this volume collects all six one-page tales by the critically-acclaimed comics juggernaut, Paul Pope, produced exclusively for SSF!
Author: Lara Pauline Karpenko Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472900773 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 311
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The essays in Strange Science examine marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations, in the Victorian period. Although now relegated to the category of the pseudoscientific, fields like mesmerism and psychical research captured the imagination of the Victorian public. Conversely, many branches of science now viewed as uncontroversial, such as physics and botany, were often associated with unorthodox methods of inquiry. Whether ultimately incorporated into mainstream scientific thought or categorized by 21st century historians as pseudo- or even anti-scientific, these sciences generated conversation, enthusiasm, and controversy within Victorian society. To date, scholarship addressing Victorian pseudoscience tends to focus either on a particular popular science within its social context or on how mainstream scientific practice distinguished itself from more contested forms. Strange Science takes a different approach by placing a range of sciences in conversation with one another and examining the similar unconventional methods of inquiry adopted by both now-established scientific fields and their marginalized counterparts during the Victorian period. In doing so, Strange Science reveals the degree to which scientific discourse of this period was radically speculative, frequently attempting to challenge or extend the apparent boundaries of the natural world. This interdisciplinary collection will appeal to scholars in the fields of Victorian literature, cultural studies, the history of the body, and the history of science.
Author: S. D. Tucker Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445648385 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 532
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Was Jesus a giant electron? How much does a mouse’s soul weigh? Can women mate with monkeys? As mad as these questions may seem, they have been asked by science in years gone by. Forgotten Science unearths some of the most extraordinary attempts to understand the world around us.
Author: Editors of Portable Press Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1626866155 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 449
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Bizarre historical tidbits about quirky queens, hippopotamus soup, shrunken heads, and much more! This exciting title from the folks at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute contains the strangest short history articles from over thirty Bathroom Readers, along with fifty all-new pages. From the twentieth century to the Old West, from the Age of Enlightenment to the Dark Ages, from ancient cultures all the way back to the dawn of time, Strange History is overflowing with mysterious artifacts, macabre legends, kooky inventions, reality-challenged rulers, boneheaded blunders, and mind-blowing facts. Whether it’s B.C. or A.D., you’ll be wondering WTF! Read about . . . The curse of Macbeth Stupid history: Hollywood style The secret LSD experiments of the 1960s In search of the lost “Cloud People” of Peru The Swedish queen who declared war on fleas Unearthing the past with the Outhouse Detectives The Apollo astronaut who swears he saw a UFO How to brew a batch of 5,000-year-old beer The brutal bloodbaths at Rome’s Coliseum Ghostly soup from ancient China The bathroom of the 1970s And much, much more!
Author: Jonathan Weiner Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062000217 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 322
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“[A] searching and surprisingly witty look at the scientific odds against tomorrow.” —Timothy Ferris Jonathan Weiner—winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and one of the most distinguished popular science writers in America—examines “the strange science of immortality” in Long for This World. A fast-paced, sure-to-astonish scientific adventure from “one of our finest science journalists” (Jonah Lehrer), Weiner’s Long for This World addresses the ageless question, “Is there a secret to eternal youth?” And has it, at long last, been found?
Author: Lara Pauline Karpenko
Author: Lara Pauline Karpenko
Author: Editors of Portable Press
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Author: David K. Randall
Author: Publications International Ltd
Author: Scott Morse
Author: Lara Pauline Karpenko
Author: S. D. Tucker
Author: Editors of Portable Press
Author: Jonathan Weiner