And Then You're Dead

Was good but a bit repetitive, some facts like that high pressure will form you into a meatball without air inside get mentioned throughout the chapters as if you've read it for the first time.
I learned some interesting facts though. There was a guy who was stung 2200 times by honeybees while fleeing from them and another guy stung himself every day for 3 months 5 times by honeybees at different places on his body to test where it would hurt the most. Apparently it's the inside from your nose and a close second the upper lip followed by the penis.
Also, when you scream at your cold coffee and it's in perfect thermal isolation, you can enjoy your hot coffee after 1.5 years.

★ ★ ★ 1/2 (rounded up)
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader as part of a quick takes post to catch up–emphasizing pithiness, not thoroughness.
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So, yeah, what I said about squeamish earlier? Pushed to the edge a couple of times in this short read/listen. It's all about the science behind what would happen to you if say, stowed away in an airplane, stowed away on a trip to the Moon, fell into the works at a Pringles factory, ate the same number of cookies as the Cookie Monster—and more.

It's funny (thankfully, or I couldn't have made it through a couple of spots), informative, creative—and a great way to spend a few hours. At one point the authors tell the reader not to do a google search on one topic. First, that hadn't even begun to cross my mind as a good idea. But secondly, given the detail they'd used when describing what happens to a human body shot out of a cannon, or swallowed by a whale, and several other topics, when they say, “don't go looking at pictures of something”? I am taking their word for it.

I had a blast listening to this. If I taught high school science, I'd have at least one copy of this on hand for reference or to pass along to students. Since I don't, I just have to remember some of these stories/theories for my own amusement.

“Stephen King meets Stephen Hawking,” but it should add “meets improv comedy.” For a book about myriad nasty ways to die, it is hilarious. My children kept asking me why I was laughing. I also want to find a use for my new knowledge of the insect-bite-pain and motion-sickness scales, other than experiencing the related problems.