Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again

Loaded with meaty trivia and tasty, bite-sized facts!

mental_floss is proud to offer a delicious, hearty helping of brain-food that's sure to fire up your neurons and tantalize your synapses. Condensed Knowledge is a mouthwatering mix of intriguing facts, lucid explanations, and mind-blowing theories that will satisfy even the hungriest mind!

Ingredients include:

5 tiny nations that get no respect - 4 civilizations nobody remembers - 5 classics written under the influence - 4 things your boss has in common with slime mold - 3 schools of thought that will impress the opposite sex - 4 things Einstein got wrong - 5 classical tunes you know from the movies - 3 famous studies that would be illegal today - 2 religious mysteries solved by chemistry - 5 scandals that rocked art, and much more ...

Author: Editors of Mental Floss
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 04/27/2004
Pages: 327
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.24h x 7.22w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780060568061

Review Citation(s):
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2004 pg. 416

About the Author
Editors of Mental Floss: -

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.