Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again
Will Pearson [Editor]; Mangesh Hattikudur [Editor]; Elizabeth Hunt [Editor];
Language: English
Published by HarperResource, 2004
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- Title
- Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again
- Author
- Will Pearson [Editor]; Mangesh Hattikudur [Editor]; Elizabeth Hunt [Editor];
- Publisher
- HarperResource
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060568062
- ISBN 13
- 9780060568061
- Edition
- 5th or later Edition
- Item weight
- 16 ounces
- Dimensions
- 9x7x1
Loaded with meaty trivia and tasty, bite-sized facts!
mental_floss is proud to offer a delicious, hearty helping of brain-food that's sure to fire up your neurons and tantalize your synapses. Condensed Knowledge is a mouthwatering mix of intriguing facts, lucid explanations, and mind-blowing theories that will satisfy even the hungriest mind!
Ingredients include:
5 tiny nations that get no respect • 4 civilizations nobody remembers • 5 classics written under the influence • 4 things your boss has in common with slime mold • 3 schools of thought that will impress the opposite sex • 4 things Einstein got wrong • 5 classical tunes you know from the movies • 3 famous studies that would be illegal today • 2 religious mysteries solved by chemistry • 5 scandals that rocked art, and much more ...
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About the Author
Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as first year students at Duke University. Ignoring the lures of law school and investment banking, the pair co-founded mental_floss and have been grinning ever since. Maggie Koerth-Baker is a freelance journalist and a former assistant editor at mental_floss magazine, where she consistently astounded Will and Mangesh with her amazingness.
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