Customer Reviews
Thoroughly Enjoyable! - By: , 09 Aug 2001 
As a scientist I really enjoyed reading about the many funny quirks of scientific experimentation. Perhaps without such eccentricities there would be no innovations! Great book! If you enjoy such "behind-the-bench" humor, I think you might like another book, which appealed to me & my R&D colleagues. It is entitled, "MANAGEMENT BY VICE" & the author is an experienced scientist, thus the book is filled with loads of real-life hilarious situations which arise between scientists & their bungling managersin high-tech industry. It does take placein the US, but I'd bet such antics are globally applicable. I recommend it as an adjunct to the marvelous compilation of scientific folliesin these annals.
Scientists are humans too. And quite good pranksters - By: , 30 Jun 1999 The Annals of Improbable Research is an institution by itself. A journal where Nobel Prize Winners amongst others write on the lighter side of science. Funny essays, stupid experiments, & completely non-sense conclusions, all of them scientifically backed up & explained. This Book collect some of the finest pearls that have appearedin the magazine & lets you wanting more. This book is the ultimate proof that your average Nobel Prize Winner can be a funny guy, & be able to laugh at himself & his work. Gives you a different (and funny) vision of science & scientists, by some of the best amongst them. A Definitive must buy if you are, even only remotly, linked to science, investigation, or technology. Your laughing source for when your experiment is going wrong at 3 a.m.
The funniest book I have ever read. - By: , 27 Oct 1997 Journalistic disclaimer: I am the 'TFD' on page 67, under 'Sleep Research Update'. If you have any sense of humour whatsoever, this book is for you. Having just returned from Cambridge (our fair city), where I led the Historians for Feynman & Tanna Tuva as Queen of Gravitation at this years' Ig Nobels, I can promise you no end of Cosmic Giggles. Possibly the only bookin history with blurbs from the Car Talk guys, a Nobel Prize winner, & the most glorious Martin Gardiner. Parents of small children: listen up! You cannot afford to miss the classic 'Taxonomy of Barney', much less 'The Aerodynamics of Potato(e) Chips'. Too funny for words.
