By Scientific American Editors
ISBN-10: 1466842520
ISBN-13: 9781466842526
Truth or Fiction: technological know-how Tackles fifty eight well known Myths through the Editors of medical American
Did NASA quite spend hundreds of thousands making a pen that might write in house? Is chocolate toxic to canine? Does rigidity reason grey hair? those questions are only a pattern of the city lore investigated during this book, truth or Fiction: technological know-how Tackles fifty eight renowned Myths. Drawing from clinical American’s “Fact or Fiction” and “Strange yet actual” columns, we’ve chosen fifty eight of the main superb, attention-grabbing, priceless and simply simple wacky issues faced by way of our writers through the years. each one short article uncovers the reality at the back of daily mythology, beginning with part One, “In the Animal Kingdom,” the place we research the various extra outlandish claims approximately our fellow earthly population, reminiscent of even if elephants relatively keep in mind every little thing and no matter if a cockroach can dwell with out its head. different sections conceal copy, the surroundings, know-how and private and psychological future health. whereas the solutions to a few questions, comparable to no matter if bathrooms particularly do flush within the other way south of the Equator, might simply serve to elevate your Trivial Pursuit wisdom, others, corresponding to no matter if to pee on a jellyfish sting or wake a sleepwalker, might come in useful. even supposing this booklet represents a fragment of circulating folks knowledge and concrete mythology, we are hoping that it’s an relaxing fraction and that it encourages you to do a little debunking your self.
