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About this audiobook
Did NASA really spend millions creating a pen that would write in space? Is chocolate poisonous to dogs? Does stress cause gray hair?
These questions are a sample of the urban lore investigated in this audiobook, Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths. Drawing from Scientific American’s “Fact or Fiction” and “Strange But True” columns, we’ve selected fifty-eight of the most surprising, fascinating, useful, and just plain wacky topics confronted by our writers over the years.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length6 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byJanet Metzger
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 3, 2020
LanguageEnglish
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