This is Improbable

Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens and Other WTF Research

Marc Abrahams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2013
Oneworld Publications (Verlag)
978-1-85168-975-0 (ISBN)

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The Guardian’s weekly “Improbable” columnist and founder of the internationally renowned, very funny, and invariably profound Ig Nobel Awards tours some of the most improbable research studies in the world.

Marc Abrahams, the mind behind the internationally renowned Ig Nobel Prizes, is on a mission: to gather the bizarre, the questionable, the brilliant, the downright funny, the profound – everything improbable – from the annals of science research.

What’s the best way to slice a ham sandwich, mathematically?

What makes Bobs look especially Bob-like?

Is the right or left ear better at discerning lies?

Could mice be outfitted with parachutes to kill tree snakes?

Marc Abrahams is the editor and co-founder of the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research and a weekly columnist for the Guardian. He is the founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, which honour achievements that make people laugh, and then think, and which are presented in an annual ceremony at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Robin.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.3.2013
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
ISBN-10	1-85168-975-3 / 1851689753
ISBN-13	978-1-85168-975-0 / 9781851689750
Zustand	Neuware