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The Mad Science Book: 100 Amazing Experiments from the History of Science by Reto U. Schneider, Peter Lewis (Translator)

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(Hardcover)

  • Pub. Date: March 2009
  • 287pp

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    • Pub. Date: March 2009
    • Publisher: Fall River Press
    • Format: Hardcover, 287pp

    Synopsis

    What happens when a human child is adopted by a family of apes? Does a dog think that a robot dog belongs to the same species? If three men meet who all think they are Jesus, how do they decide who is right?

    These questions and a myriad others are answered in The Mad Science Book. Here you will find blinking corpses, flying sheep and fanatical theology students, not to mention wandering pubic hair and a two-headed dog. Find out how cats always manage to land on their feet, and what strategies waiters use to get bigger tips.

    Biography

    Born in 1963, Reto U. Schneider is the deputy editor of the magazine NZZ Folio in Zürich, Switzerland. An award-winning science journalist, he is a graduate of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich, with a degree in electrical engineering. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and author of Planetenjäger [Planet Hunter], the story of the discovery of the first planet found outside the solar system.

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    Thoroughly enjoyable for layman and accomplished researcherby flatboat

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    August 06, 2009: This is not a superficial collection of wild experiments. This book concisely covers the background of each experiment; human frailty, foibles and also insight brought into these experiments; and finally the conclusions taken away. Each one can be treasured, be it for brilliance in planning or execution, or outlandish absurdity, or a combination of the two. It is enjoyable to read, and I feel empowered to be more thoughtful in the experiments I get to do in my job. I have a related quote that may be relevant:

    A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. - Albert Einstein

    Although not all the experimenters in the book were as thoughtful as Einstein! But read it! I read a few pages at the store and had to bring it home.