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Sep. 07, 2012
The Importance of Strange Science
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Science isn’t always about new drugs or robots on Mars. In his new book, This is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and other WTF Research, Marc Abrahams shows us what we can learn from a man who swallowed a shrew, and other unlikely experiments.
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An excerpt from This is Improbable by Marc Abrahams
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Marc Abrahams
Editor and Co-founder, Annals of Improbable Research
Founder and Master of Ceremonies,IgNobel Prize Ceremony
Weekly Columnist, The Guardian
Boston, Massachusetts
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