Is it easy to swim in syrup. Where do strange scientific discoveries come from. Erlikh G., Komarov S.

How are explosives and diamonds, Coca-Cola and the birth rate, kisses and allergies related? What is it how to live in the skin of a goat or fly between drops, like mosquitoes? Do plants have rights? Where does the pain so hurt the bee? From the frivolous question to the real discovery, one step... and science is not a dull conveyor for the production of knowledge, it is full of errors, errors, curious cases, non -standard approaches to the problem. Scientists who are not afraid to take a look at the world without prejudice, sometimes become laureates of the Ignobel Prize “For achievements that make you laugh first and then think”. , the experiments of researchers (including above themselves), parallels (for example, between the device of hell and black holes), far -reaching conclusions (restoring the structure of protein and a turn of time to back), and most importantly about inexhaustible human curiosity, the ability to ask questions and, Of course, a sense of humor.