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Also by Alex Boese:

Electrified Sheep, June 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Elephants on Acid, November 2007
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Hippo Eats Dwarf, April 2006
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ELECTRIFIED SHEEP
By: Alex Boese

Glass-eating Scientists, Nuking the Moon, and More Bizarre Experiments

Thomas Dunne Books
June 2012
On Sale: June 5, 2012
352 pages
ISBN: 1250007534
EAN: 9781250007537
Kindle: B006ZL1KHK
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction

Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment, and a founding father of the United States. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on an electric-shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a hen that he himself had shocked.

Welcome to some of the weirdest and most wonderful experiments ever conducted in the name of science. Filled with stories of science gone strange, Electrified Sheep is packed with eccentric characters, irrational obsessions, and extreme experiments. Watch as scientists attempt to nuke the moon, wince at the doctor who performs a self-appendectomy, and catch the faint whiff of singed wool from an electrified sheep.

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All Things Considered - July 7, 2012