This book is fun and funny. As I read the intro, though, I was familiar with the experiment involving the child blue and the child described. It was VERY different than it was represented in this book. (I first encountered it on RadioLab: "Is the Sky Blue?") Unfortunately, this made me skeptical of everything in the book, and despite my limited knowledge in many of the fields covered, I caught a number of errors (the most egregious being the widely believed weight loss=calories in A history book for the ages. Which I suppose all history books are, but shut up. The things you learn that you had learned but learn that you learned incorrectly are as insurmountable as this sentence was confusing. The pyramids didn't look like the large clay lego constructions they are today. The way you are pooping is giving you hemorrhoids. The Romans weren't huge fans of bland marble as we see today.We are products of the failings of previous products of failings. Let cracked.com in to reassemble the jumbled puzzle that is your weak grasp on history.
Amusing, and nicely illustrated. But riddled with factual errors, and surprisingly ideological.
—windhamk
Wonderful, informative book that everyone should read.
—Zane
Hilarious. Both Dad and I really enjoyed this one.
—kel
But wait. If you de-text a book...mind. blown.
—merrymaker
