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Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths

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Duration
6H 5min
Language
English
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Non-fiction

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.

© 2020 Blackstone Publishing (Audiobook): 9781094075228

Release date

Audiobook: November 3, 2020

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