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Fact or Fiction
- Author
- Scientific American
- Narrator
- Janet Metzger
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 3 November 2020
- Run Time
- 6 hours 6 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Did NASA really spend millions creating a pen that would write in space? Is chocolate poisonous to dogs? Does stress cause gray hair?
These questions are a sample of the urban lore investigated in this audiobook, Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths. Drawing from Scientific American’s “Fact or Fiction” and “Strange But True” columns, we’ve selected fifty-eight of the most surprising, fascinating, useful, and just plain wacky topics confronted by our writers over the years.
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Details
- Author
- Scientific American
- Narrator
- Janet Metzger
- Duration
- 6 hours 6 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 November 2020
- ISBN
- 9781094075228
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Science: general issues
Synopsis
Did NASA really spend millions creating a pen that would write in space? Is chocolate poisonous to dogs? Does stress cause gray hair?These questions are a sample of the urban lore investigated in this audiobook, Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths. Drawing from Scientific American’s “Fact or Fiction” and “Strange But True” columns, we’ve selected fifty-eight of the most surprising, fascinating, useful, and just plain wacky topics confronted by our writers over the years.
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