Your Brain on Facts: Things You Didn't Know, Things You Thought You Knew, and Things You Never Knew You Never Knew - Couverture souple

LaBouche, Moxie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1642502537 ISBN 13 : 9781642502534

Editeur : TMA Press, 2020

Synopsis

From the trivia-darling podcast of the same name, springs a book guaranteed to satisfy even the hungriest brain, with science (why does mint feel cold?), history (King Charles II of Spain was so inbred, his family didn't bother educating him), medicine (two doctors tested cocaine as an anesthetic by injecting it into their spines), music (many hit songs, and even whole albums, were written for revenge), technology (the first video game, Tennis for Two, was created on an oscilloscope in 1958), art (restorers destroyed a DaVinci sketch by putting it in water and alcohol), and more.

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À propos de l'auteur

Moxie LaBouche was a burlesque performer and producer, goat farmer, and salesperson before starting the Your Brain On Facts podcast. She is also creator and co-host of the Science With Savannah, Age 7 podcast and YouTube channel. Moxie currently lives in Virginia with her husband and dozen or so pets. Read more at http://www.yourbrainonfacts.com/ Emily Prokop graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a degree in journalism and has worked in newspapers, magazines, and even as a puzzle editor, but always loved picking up random trivia and sharing it with her not-quite-as-enthused friends and coworkers. Luckily, she was able to combine her passions for trivia and podcasting when she created The Story Behind podcast in 2016 and wrote a book based on it in 2018. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two kids, and two cats.

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From the Foreword by Emily Prokop, host of The Story Behind podcast and author of The Story Behind

Humans are weird. I am raising two small humans and they remind me of this fact on a daily basis. But aside from the obvious idiosyncrasies we all have, humans are also weird because we are the only species that questions the world around us.

Cats don’t stop to wonder why they land on all fours. They just do it and move on.

But humans couldn’t just accept that as fact. We questioned it for hundreds of years, probably to the detriment of many cats who were unwilling participants in these trials. It wasn’t until we had new technology that we were finally able to watch a cat using what’s now known as his Righting Reflex to maneuver his body so he can land on all four paws.

And we, weird humans that we are, probably celebrated this new knowledge while the first cat ever to be recorded on video went along his day probably thinking to himself, “humans are weird!”

But that’s what makes us human. Some doctors even think our ability to wonder “why?” about the world around us separates us from every other species.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: TMA Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1642502537
• ISBN 13: 9781642502534
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 238
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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