The Resource This is improbable : cheese string theory, magnetic chickens, and other WTF research, Marc Abrahams
This is improbable : cheese string theory, magnetic chickens, and other WTF research, Marc Abrahams
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- Summary
- Marc Abrahams, the founder of the famous Ig Nobel Prize, offers an addictive, wryly funny expose of the oddest, most imaginative, and just plain improbable research from around the world. He looks into why books on ethics are more likely to get stolen and how promoting people randomly improves their work, to what time of month generates higher tips for Vegas lap dancers and how mice were outfitted with parachutes to find a better way to murder tree snakes in Guam. Abrahams' tour through these unlikeliest investigations of animals, plants, and minerals, including humans, will first make you laugh, then make you think about the globe in a new way
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 299 p.
- Contents
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- Prologue, without ducks
- Strange in the head
- Things that matter
- Dogs, cows, cats, and so forth
- Behave yourself (or don't)
- Eat, think, and be merry
- Money can be valuable
- Of us, in bed
- Exciting injuries and ills
- Seriously deadly
- Just add. What, er?
- For detectives
- It must mean-- something
- Isbn
- 9781851689316
- Label
- This is improbable : cheese string theory, magnetic chickens, and other WTF research
- Title
- This is improbable
- Title remainder
- cheese string theory, magnetic chickens, and other WTF research
- Statement of responsibility
- Marc Abrahams
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Marc Abrahams, the founder of the famous Ig Nobel Prize, offers an addictive, wryly funny expose of the oddest, most imaginative, and just plain improbable research from around the world. He looks into why books on ethics are more likely to get stolen and how promoting people randomly improves their work, to what time of month generates higher tips for Vegas lap dancers and how mice were outfitted with parachutes to find a better way to murder tree snakes in Guam. Abrahams' tour through these unlikeliest investigations of animals, plants, and minerals, including humans, will first make you laugh, then make you think about the globe in a new way
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- aXIcGdPTT9w
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- Annals of improbable research
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Abrahams, Marc
- Dewey number
- 502.07
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- Q173
- LC item number
- .A186 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Science
- Research
- Label
- This is improbable : cheese string theory, magnetic chickens, and other WTF research, Marc Abrahams
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-299)
- Contents
- Prologue, without ducks -- Strange in the head -- Things that matter -- Dogs, cows, cats, and so forth -- Behave yourself (or don't) -- Eat, think, and be merry -- Money can be valuable -- Of us, in bed -- Exciting injuries and ills -- Seriously deadly -- Just add. What, er? -- For detectives -- It must mean-- something
- Control code
- ocn776501888
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 299 p.
- Isbn
- 9781851689316
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)776501888
- Label
- This is improbable : cheese string theory, magnetic chickens, and other WTF research, Marc Abrahams
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-299)
- Contents
- Prologue, without ducks -- Strange in the head -- Things that matter -- Dogs, cows, cats, and so forth -- Behave yourself (or don't) -- Eat, think, and be merry -- Money can be valuable -- Of us, in bed -- Exciting injuries and ills -- Seriously deadly -- Just add. What, er? -- For detectives -- It must mean-- something
- Control code
- ocn776501888
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 299 p.
- Isbn
- 9781851689316
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)776501888
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