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Can you grow a bonsai kitten? Should you stock up on dehydrated water? Is it easy to order human-flavored tofu? Or is this all just B.S.? In a world of lip synching, breast implants, payola punditry, and staged reality shows, it's hard to know the real from the fake. Hippo Eats …
Scientific investigator Alex Boese has collected together a wonderfully entertaining anthology of the best urban myths of recent years. From bonsai kittens reared in jars to keep them small to male lactation, Boese confirms or de-bunks these tales once and for all.
Scientific investigator Alex Boese has collected together a wonderfully entertaining anthology of the best urban myths of recent years. From bonsai kittens reared in jars to keep them small to male lactation, Boese confirms or de-bunks these tales once and for all.
Presents a collection of hundreds of documented historical hoaxes, pranks, deceptions, and stunts that have fooled the public from the Middle Ages to the present day.
"A remarkable collection based on the author's popular Web site, Alex Boese's The Museum of Hoaxes is a fascinating historical tour of hundreds of documented hoaxes, many collected here for the first time. Read about the curiosities and cons of the most notorious hornswogglers a…
Presents a collection of hundreds of documented historical hoaxes, pranks, deceptions, and stunts that have fooled the public from the Middle Ages to the present day.
"Perfect summertime reading'preferably with a friend nearby who can be constantly interrupted with unsettling facts." 'Daily Mail (UK) Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment, and a founding father of the United States. But perhaps less well kno…
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Elephant's on Acid and Electrified Sheep What if we're living inside a black hole? What if we've already found extraterrestrial life? What if the dinosaurs died in a nuclear war? What if Jesus Christ was actually a mushroom?
Elephants on Acid is a wonderfully entertaining, authoritative collection of history's most bizarre experiments, from the 19th-century creation of zombie kittens to a University of Wisconsin study that answers, definitively, the question of whether women who play hard-to-get rea…
Elephants on Acid is a wonderfully entertaining, authoritative collection of history's most bizarre experiments, from the 19th-century creation of zombie kittens to a University of Wisconsin study that answers, definitively, the question of whether women who play hard-to-get rea…
