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Weighing the Soul : Scientific Discovery from the Brilliant to the Bisarre

From the man who ""puts the fizz in physics"" (Entertainment Weekly), an entertaining and thought-provoking foray into the science of the bizarre, the peculiar, and the downright nutty! Winner of the IgNobel Prize in physics and the 2004 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, Len Fisher showed just how much fun science can be in his enthusiastically praised debut, How to Dunk a Doughnut. In this new work, he reveals that science sometimes takes a path through the ridiculous and the bizarre to discover that Nature often simply does not follow common sense. One experiment, inv.

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  • "Li shi shang zui gao guai di shi yan"
  • "歷史上最搞怪的實驗"

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  • "From the man who ""puts the fizz in physics"" (Entertainment Weekly), an entertaining and thought-provoking foray into the science of the bizarre, the peculiar, and the downright nutty! Winner of the IgNobel Prize in physics and the 2004 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, Len Fisher showed just how much fun science can be in his enthusiastically praised debut, How to Dunk a Doughnut. In this new work, he reveals that science sometimes takes a path through the ridiculous and the bizarre to discover that Nature often simply does not follow common sense. One experiment, inv."@en
  • "From the man who puts the fizz in physics (Entertainment Weekly), an entertaining and thought-provoking foray into the science of the bizarre, the peculiar, and the downright nutty! Winner of the Nobel Prize in physics and the 2004 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, Len Fisher showed just how much fun science can be in his enthusiastically praised debut, How to Dunk a Doughnut. In this new work, he reveals that science sometimes takes a path through the ridiculous and the bizarre to discover that Nature often simply does not follow common sense. One experiment, involving a bed, platform scales, and a dying man, seemed to prove that the soul weighed the same as a slice of bread. But other, no less fanciful experiments and ideas led to the fundamentals of our understanding of movement, heat, light, and energy, and such things as the discovery of electricity, and the structure of DNA; improved engines; and the invention of computers. As in his previous book, Fisher uses personal stories and examples from everyday life, as well as humor, to make the science accessible. He touches on topics from lightning to corsets and from alchemy to Frankenstein and water babies, but he may not claim the last word on the weight of the soul!"
  • "Explores the strange and ridiculous paths science can take, describing bizarre experiments, discoveries, and figures."

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  • "History"
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  • "Weighing the soul : scientific discovery from the brilliant to the bizarre"
  • "Der Versuch, die Seele zu wiegen und andere Sternstunden von Forschern und Fantasten"
  • "Ling hun you duo zhong? : li shi shang zui gao guai de shi yan"
  • "Weighing the Soul : Scientific Discovery from the Brilliant to the Bisarre"@en
  • "靈魂有多重? : 歷史上最搞怪的實驗"
  • "Ling hun you duo chong ? : li shi shang zui gao guai di shi yan"
  • "Weighing the soul scientific discovery from the brilliant to the bizarre"
  • "Weighing the Soul"@en

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