The theory of everything else : a voyage into the world of the weird / Dan Schreiber.
The cohost of the podcast "No Such Thing as a Fish" investigates the world's most mind-boggling, thought-provoking, and downright hilarious theories about time travel, aliens, ghosts, mysterious creatures, and more.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063259195
- ISBN: 0063259192
- Physical Description: xvi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword: The rough corner -- Disclaimer: a warning - Introduction: hello from the odder side -- The importance of being a little bit batshit -- The weirdo who saved the world ;The theory of the un-provable -- The scientist who blew up everything ; The theory of the mad scientists -- The improbable tale of Tu Youyou ; The theory of ancient Chinese medicine -- The exorcism of Ringo Starr ; The theory of the devil in music - Rosemary Brown and the loungeroom of dead composers ; The theory of clairvoyance -- Oh, the places you'll go . . . Next ; The theory of last words - Novak Djokovic and the power of alien pyramid energy ; The theory of supernatural doping -- The soft rock ; The theory of impossibilities -- The university of rejected sciences -- Are authors stealing their ideas from the future? ; The theory of premonitions -- Did time travelers sink the Titanic? ; The theory of the Titanic -- Where have all the public lice gone? ; The theory of the endangered -- Will we ever speak Dolphinese? ; The theory of animal communication -- Should office plants be investigating murder cases? ; The theory of plant communication -- Can watching Uri Geller on TV get you pregnant? ; The theory of magicians -- Do ghost fly business class ; The theory of curses -- Are we only here because of an alien picnic gone wrong? ; The theory of life on earth -- Where can I get a good pint of alien moonshine? ; The theory of extraterrestrials -- You can't have the theory of everything without the theory of everything else -- How Isaac Newton hollowed out the Earth ; The theory of the hollow earth -- How to discover the knobs of Mars ; The theory of NTOMARHIYDIONHGARNAYGNIAR -- The president who stopped his own assassination ; The theory of destiny -- The man who didn't fall to earth ; The theory of incredible luck -- The secret to world domination ; The theory of unpalatability -- The unpredictable world of Nostradamus ; The theory of predictions -- An arse wrinkle in time ; The theory of unlikely oracles -- A creationist on the moon ; The theory of the Apollo Moon Landings ; Footprints of the charlatans ; The theory of unexpected heroes -- Conclusion: We can be weirdos. |
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Subject: | Curiosities and wonders. Conspiracy theories. |
Genre: | Trivia and miscellanea. |
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