News and views from the Unexpected science
Jenny has put up a new display called "Not your typical science books." She's set out a pretty entertaining assortment of books with titles like Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine, Every Creeping Thing: True Tales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife, and Blood & Guts: A Short History of Medicine. Blood & Guts, by the late Roy Porter, is peppered with historical illustrations from various archives and libraries. My favorite is probably the cover image of a quack and his patient (ca. 1800, by James Gillray):
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Doctor: This should clear out that stuffy nose of yours...
Patient:AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
Yeah. We should totally do caption contests for some of these.
caption contest! caption contest!
and then there's that one book about the lives of corpses... i looked at that one while shelfreading... :O
Oh yeah, _Stiff_. That made a return in Rif Raf, during the ELECTRIFYING NONFICTION week. It looked like a good book.
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