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Don’t Try This in High School
Edited by Norman Sperling. © 2011 Norman Sperling.
Good science in good humor! Sharp high school and college science students will love these spoofs and lampoons. Witty twists open minds to exciting, refreshing new thoughts.
Selected from The Journal of Irreproducible Results, the science humor magazine. Some articles are longish, assume understanding high school science courses, and — appealing to high school and college students — aren’t totally inoffensive.
8.5 x 5.5 inches, 216 pages. To be alerted when book versions go on sale, email normsperling@gmail.com . Paperback PoD 978-0913399-12-5; Hardback 978-0913399-13-2; Ebook 978-0913399-14-9; audiobook 978-0913399-15-6.
Give this book:
* for holidays, birthdays, graduation
* to tide them over a long trip or recuperation
* and to encourage thinking and laughing at the same time
To sample the flavor, here are a few of the topics:
Physics
Yo Mama jokes
Physicist MacDonald's Farm
Watched pot never boils
Ideal lab equipment
Chemistry
Chocolate cake
Mannekin molecules
Biology
Frog dissection
Flies
Budgies as weapons
Insect rights
Math
2 = 1
Even prime numbers
The largest integer
Computing infinity
Word Play
Suplurals and zero-order terms
Crossword puzzle from Hell
Nature versus Nurture
Color discrimination
Triplets raised apart
Plus
Rock - Paper - Scissors
Cluedness
Coin stacking
Ben Franklin was twins
Sunrises
Eradicating poverty
Marmite® versus Vegemite®
Deep space hand salutes
and several cool songs
If you assemble a kit to give along with the book, include:
Mentos®
Tootsie® pops
sand
cat hair
jelly
Jell-O®
and Mars® bars.
Yes, a lot of articles are really sweet.
The imaginary invisible companion described in one article is supplied free with the book.
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Classifications
Dewey: 502.07 science humor
Library of Congress: Q167 science humor
British Library: Q167 science humour
Anatomy: humerus
Biochemistry: hydrocarbon polymer
Boffin: proto
Dental: nitrous oxide
Emoticon: 8-D
Epidemiology: highly infectious
Geek: chic
Gilbert & Sullivan: Major General
Hitchhikers: 42
Initialism: ROFLMAO
Latlong: -122+37
Lux: brilliant, sparkling
Madoff: +0.104i
Nerd: pride
Oceanography: dry
Ottewell: 8 3/8 inches
Stratigraphy: Upper Anthropocene
Trigonometry: tangents
Zoology: owl/hyena
