The theory of everything else : a voyage into the world of the weird / Dan Schreiber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schreiber, Dan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Curiosities and wonders.

Conspiracy theories.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

xvi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Foreword: The rough corner

Disclaimer: a warning - Introduction: hello from the odder side

The importance of being a little 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 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 of 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.

Notes:

"Can ancient pyramids improve your tennis serve? Whould office plants be investigating murder cases? Are we only here because of an alien picnic gone wrong? And more!" -- Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346).

Other Edition:

Reproduction of: 9780008519018 Schreiber, Dan. London : Mudlark, 2022

ISBN:

9780063259195

0063259192

OCLC:

1385314137

Publisher Number:

99994262418