The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science - Hardcover

Real scientific discoveries that sound made up, told with humor and genuine surprise.

The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog collects actual scientific experiments and their outcomes. The results are so unexpected they seem fictional. This is science history for people who thought they didn't like science history.

Faculty teaching science, popular science, or the history of ideas assign this to keep students engaged. It proves that reality is often stranger than the narratives we construct around it.