The author of The Museum of Hoaxes offers a hilarious odyssey into the world of bizarre, outrageous, and provocative scientific experiments that seek to determine what happens to an elephant that is given a dose of LSD, would the average dog summon help in an emergency, can life really be restored t[...]
Have you ever wondered if a severed head retains consciousness long enough to see what happened to it? Or whether your dog would run to fetch help, if you fell down a disused mineshaft? And what would happen if you were to give an elephant the largest ever single dose of LSD? The chances are that so[...]
Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a h[...]
"Perfect summertime reading--preferably with a friend nearby who can be constantly interrupted with unsettling facts." --"Daily Mail" (UK )
Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment, and a founding father of the United States. But perhaps less well known is that h[...]
The Pig Who Survived an Atomic BombThe Psychologist Who Hid Beneath BedsThe Founding Father Who Delivered Mouth-to-Mouth . . . to a Chicken
Welcome to some of the most weird and wonderful experiments ever conducted in the name of science. Alex Boese's "Electrified Sheep" is packed with eccentric[...]
Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a h[...]