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Pauline Alama
, September 05, 2013
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Remember those science textbooks from your grade school days, full of factlets and factoids and diagrams? Science Made Stupid is a great parody of the way science is often presented to kids (or at least was back then). It does for science education "1066 and All That" did for English history and "Dave Barry Slept Here" did for American history. Much of the humor is visual, like an illustration of the dinosaurs being made extinct by a comet -- that is, a comet whacking a dinosaur in the back of the head. Others rely on wordplay, like "Red shift shows increasing Communist domination of the galaxy." I remember when my college science fiction club got a copy of this book, we passed it around laughing helplessly.
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