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"The Mad Science Book" is the UK edition of the German bestseller "Das Buch der verrückten Experimente". The amazing stories of 113 strange experiments from the middle ages to today. Entertaining, mind opening, deeply researched, with original illustrations (the second volume has not yet been licensed for the UK or US. Foreign rights).
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Quiz
"Do embarrassement researchers ask you to suck a pacifier in public?"
"Did Darwin play the bassoon for worms?"
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Poll
The weirdest experiments
Visitors to this website voted for their favorite weird science experiment. The ranking:
1. The three Christs of Ypsilanti -Three men think they are Jesus. What happens when they meet?(1959) full story
2. Diagnosing schizophrenics with spider webs (1955) full story
3. The hanging studies (1905) full story
4. Brilliantly saying nothing. Does anyone notice? (1970) full story
5. Staying in bed for one year (1986) full story
6. Crucifiying volunteers (1984) more
Editions
English
The Mad Science Book (Quercus 2008)
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German
Das Buch der verrückten Experimente (Bertelsmann 2004)
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Das neue Buch der verrückten Experimente (Bertelsmann 2009)
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Dutch
Bizarre Wetenschap (Elmar 2004)
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Willen Weten (Elmar 2010)
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Swedish
De Galna Experimentens Bok (Fahrenheit 2006)
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Corean
매드 사이언스 북 (Puriwa Ipari 2008)
Polish
111 najbardziej szalonych eksperymentów (Proszynski 2009)
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Chinese
疯狂实验史(新知文库;) (SDX Joint Publishing Company 2009)
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Films 1900-1919
Below you will find filmclips in connection to the experiments in the books. Please note "book 1" refers to "The Mad Science Book", "book 2" to "Das neue Buch der verrückten Experimente" the second volume that has not yet been published in English (see foreign rights).
1902 Pavlov Only Rings Once (book 1, p. 63)
| Classical Conditioning: The Basics No experiment has had more musical groups named after itthan the one Pavlov conducted with dogs: "Pavlov’s Dog and the Condition Reflex Soul Revue and Concert Choir", "Ivan Pavlov and the Salivation Army", "Pavlov’s Dawgs", "Conditioned Response", "Pavlov’s Cat" to name a few. If you want to know what all the fuzz is about watch the video. Pavlovs conditioning even made it into a Disney film. |