The Japanese edition (ISBN 9784062813136) of the book Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans (ISBN 0752864610)* joins the multilingual family of editions of this curious little tome. The publishers chose an eye-catching cover boy: Ig Nobel Prize winner Troy Hurtubise, he of the suit of armor designed to protect against grizzly bears. * Also known as “Ig […]
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Improbable path to an economics book
Yoram Bauman explains (in an interview with Newsarama) how his article in the Annals of Improbable Research led, more or less, to his new book The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume One: Microeconomics: Eventually it got published in this humor journal called “The Annals of Improbable Research”. They present the Ignoble Prize every year. Then […]
Memoirs of a stomach: written by himself
This week’s Book of the Week is Memoirs of a stomach: written by himself, that all who eat may read, by Sidney Whiting, published by W.E. Painter in London in 1853. A typical passage: My chief uses were these — To receive with becoming courtesy and politeness all nourishment that arrived in my parts, through […]
Theo Gray, in his element, in a book
From humble elements (nature’s own) did Theo Gray make a nifty book, just published, called Mad Science, chock full of experiments you should absolutely not do unless you are sure you can do them safely and have extremely good reason for your certainty, in which case you will wear good safety goggles and all other […]