Mental Floss presents In the Beginning - From Big Hair to the Big Bang, mental_floss presents a Mouthwatering

Informationen zum Autor Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as first year students at Duke University. Ignoring the lures of law school and investment banking, the pair co-founded mental_floss and have been grinning ever since. Maggie Koerth-Baker is a freelance journalist and a former assistant editor at mental_floss magazine, where she consistently astounded Will and Mangesh with her amazingness. Klappentext Sure, you know all about the birds and bees. But did Dad ever tell you that it wasn't a stork that put that shiny can opener in your kitchen drawer? Or paperclips started out as proud, Nazi-fighting warriors? And did he tell you how cruise control was originally conceived by a blind genius? From mullets to Silly Putty, lie detectors to karaoke, we've got the true stories behind everything you didn't think had stories. Because if you're looking for answers, In the Beginning is the place to start. Zusammenfassung Sure! you know all about the birds and bees. But did Dad ever tell you that it wasn't a stork that put that shiny can opener in your kitchen drawer? Or paperclips started out as proud! Nazi-fighting warriors? And did he tell you how cruise control was originally conceived by a blind genius? From mullets to Silly Putty! lie detectors to karaoke! we've got the true stories behind everything you didn't think had stories. Because if you're looking for answers! In the Beginning is the place to start.

Product details

• Authors: Mary C. (EDT)/ Pearson Carmichael, Editors of Mental Floss, Hattikudur Mangesh, Pearson Will
• Assisted by: Mary Carmichael (Editor), Mary C. Carmichael (Editor), Mangesh Hattikudur (Editor), Will Pearson (Editor)
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.2007
• EAN: 9780061251474
• ISBN: 978-0-06-125147-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 187 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; SOCIAL SCIENCE: Popular Culture, HUMOR: General, SCIENCE: Essays, HISTORY: Reference, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES: Popular Culture, SCIENCE: History, HUMOR: Topic / Adult, HISTORY: Essays, HUMOR: Topic / History