Barmaid's Brain: And Other Strange Tales from Science - Jay Ingram - Hardcover Book

The first few chapters/stories of this collection were not very interesting or written in a style that I found appealing, but after a little time and a few more pages I started really enjoying the factoids and humor of the author. The first story is about laughter and it is one of the least funny things in the book. I suggest skipping it. Move on to the more chuckle-worthy subjects like gluing moths to styrofoam boats, flies that fly so fast they would embed themselves into a bystander's flesh, the trouble with planarian cannibals and the mysterious aquatic ape. It sounds more vicious when I pick out my favorites... The writer is a gentle Canadian who prefers the question to the answer.