The Barmaid's Brain: And Other Strange Tales from Science
by Jay Ingram
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"Some of the little-known quirks of science, from why we laugh to why moths fly to the light, to how slinging drinks affects both memory and perception in a barmaid's brain (for the better!)."--Jacket.Tags
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This is interesting, but I ended up giving up on it...I didn't want to think that much! :)
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Jay Ingram was the host of Discovery Channel Canada's Daily Planet for sixteen years, and before that hosted CBC Radio's national science show, Quirks Quarks. He has written seventeen books.
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- Canonical title
- The Barmaid's Brain: And Other Strange Tales from Science
- Original publication date
- 1998
- People/Characters
- Erik the Red; Hafgerdingar; Mermen; David Rosenhan; Black-capped Chickadee; Rupert Sheldrake (show all 45); James McConnell; Irving Langmuir; Robin Baker; Jean Henri Fabre; Philip Callahan; Sir Alister Hardy; Elaine Morgan; Joan of Arc; John Butterfield; Isobel Butterfield; R. H. Ratnasuriya; Linnda Caporeal; Laurence Witten II; Thomas Ewart Marston; Walter McCrone; Tom Cahill; Archimedes of Syracuse; Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Gervase of Canterbury; Jack Hartung; H. H. Nininger; Glenn Huss; Odile Calame; J. Derral Mulholland; Abbé Pluche; Charles de Bonnet; Howard Topoff; Jeffrey Lucas; Felix d’Herelle; Griffith Smith; J. J. Thomson; Mark Anthony Zimara; Robert Fludd; Joseph Newman; Harold Puthoff; Arthur C. Clarke; Yuri Artsutanov; Jerome Pearson; Giordano Bruno
- Important places
- Salem, Massachusetts, USA; New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Greenland; Syracuse, Sicily, Italy; Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK; Canterbury, Kent, England, UK (show all 8); Moon; Royal institution of Great Britain, London, England, UK
- Important events
- Discovery of Greenland; Salem witch trials; Second Punic War; Lecture at Royal Institution, London on March 18, 1910
- Epigraph
- None
- Dedication
- To Cynthia, Rachel, Amelia, and Max
- First words
- This book is a selection of my favorite science stories. (Introduction)
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)With thinking like that, who needs Star Trek?
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- 219
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- Reviews
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- (3.65)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 4
