Science's Most Wanted: Outrageous Innovators, Deadly Disasters and Shocking Discoveries
Language: English
Published by Brassey's US, 2002
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- Title
- Science's Most Wanted: Outrageous Innovators, Deadly Disasters and Shocking Discoveries
- Author
- Conner, Susan,Kitchen, Linda
- Publisher
- Brassey's US
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1574884816
- ISBN 13
- 9781574884814
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Science and technology have had more than their share of the good, the bad, and the bogus. Alfred William Lawson, the designer of the first airliner, believed that two types of creatures lived within the brain "Menorgs," which were the mental organizers responsible for all good things, and "Disorgs," which infect all cells with disorganization. Chonosuke Okamura collected and catalogued what he thought were tiny men and animals, all 1/100-inch long, which most geologists think are actually mineral grains. Peter Fong found that the expression "happy as a clam" had a scientific basis when he tested the effects of Prozac on fingernail clams. The dashing figure of dinosaur hunter Roy Chapman Andrews was the model upon which Indian Jones was based. Physician John Brinckley believed that consuming goat glands would restore youth and virility. In keeping with the format of the popular "Most Wanted" Series, this new volume comprises sixty top-ten lists. These include Worst Ideas by Great Scientists, Most Unlikely Inventors, Greatest Unsolved Mysteries, Most Ridiculous Attempts at Flight, Biggest Hoaxes, Most Suppressed Inventions, and Top UFO Sightings. Sciences Most Wanted shows how throughout history, mankind has tried, often wildly unsuccessfully, to come to grips with lifes biggest questions.
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