Summary of Elephants on Acid and Other Weird Experiments
By Alex Boese Summary by Tarek Weber
Elephants on Acid and Other Weird Experiments is by Alex Boese. It is a collection of strange experiments all organized by subject. There is a chapter on sense experiments, Frankenstein-like experiments, memory experiments, sleep experiments, animal experiments, a chapter titled: Mating Behavior, baby experiments, bathroom experiments, and there is a chapter of experiments that deals with death. There is also a chapter dealing with what cause a person to be good or, evil. This does not do any first hand recording of experiments. It only records what was already recorded, and it just takes information from many different sources and puts it in the same book. The book is about 266 pages. It is a book where you do not have to read the whole thing and you can also just skip over boring parts.
It has very interesting experiments in it. There is a section that describes a few fart experiments and I enjoyed it. The author mixes science facts with his opinions. The section describes an experiment where the average amount of flatulence was measured. The other experiment measured types, amount and intensity of farts. There is another experiment testing the popular myth that elephants never forget. It turns out that they can forget, but not for a very long time. The experiment dealt with patterns on food boxes. The same experiment was performed a year later and the elephant did well. In another experiment on psychology a 14 year old kid was tricked into remembering something that did not even happen. A researcher gathered details on his life and adjusted them to fit into a story about being lost in a mall, and with the familiar details the kid told the researcher a story about how he got lost in the mall. None of it ever happened though. The experiments in this book are real things, not just things done in some guy’s garage.
By Alex Boese Summary by Tarek Weber
Elephants on Acid and Other Weird Experiments is by Alex Boese. It is a collection of strange experiments all organized by subject. There is a chapter on sense experiments, Frankenstein-like experiments, memory experiments, sleep experiments, animal experiments, a chapter titled: Mating Behavior, baby experiments, bathroom experiments, and there is a chapter of experiments that deals with death. There is also a chapter dealing with what cause a person to be good or, evil. This does not do any first hand recording of experiments. It only records what was already recorded, and it just takes information from many different sources and puts it in the same book. The book is about 266 pages. It is a book where you do not have to read the whole thing and you can also just skip over boring parts.
It has very interesting experiments in it. There is a section that describes a few fart experiments and I enjoyed it. The author mixes science facts with his opinions. The section describes an experiment where the average amount of flatulence was measured. The other experiment measured types, amount and intensity of farts. There is another experiment testing the popular myth that elephants never forget. It turns out that they can forget, but not for a very long time. The experiment dealt with patterns on food boxes. The same experiment was performed a year later and the elephant did well. In another experiment on psychology a 14 year old kid was tricked into remembering something that did not even happen. A researcher gathered details on his life and adjusted them to fit into a story about being lost in a mall, and with the familiar details the kid told the researcher a story about how he got lost in the mall. None of it ever happened though. The experiments in this book are real things, not just things done in some guy’s garage.
