Böcker av Marc Abrahams

The mind behind the infamous Ig Nobel Prizes presents an addictive collection of improbable research all about us and you Marc Abrahams collects the odd, the imaginative and the brilliantly improbable. Here he turns to research on the ins and outs of the very improbable evolutionary innovation that is the human body (brain included): *; What's the best way to get a monkey to floss regularly? *; How much dandruff do Pakistani soldiers have? *; If you add an extra henchman to your bank-robbing gang, how much more money will you 'earn'? *; How many dimples will be found on the cheeks of 28,282 Greek children? *; Who is the Einstein of pork carcasses?

Laugh out loud and then think seriously about these outlandish scientific studiesMarc 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. Whats 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?