This Is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens and Other WTF Research

Author:   Marc Abrahams
Publisher:   Oneworld Publications
ISBN:  

9781851689316


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   06 September 2012
Format:   Paperback
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This Is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens and Other WTF Research


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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.

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Author:   Marc Abrahams
Publisher:   Oneworld Publications
Imprint:   Oneworld Publications
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.344kg
ISBN:  

9781851689316


ISBN 10:   1851689311
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   06 September 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Delightful... a pleasure to read in the bathroom and in the bedroom, and the kind of book that makes you seem smarter when you share it with friends (just make sure you wash your hands first). --Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational


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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.

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