Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780060568061)

Loaded with meaty trivia and tasty, bite-sized facts

mental_floss is proud to offer a delicious, hearty helping of brain-food that's sure to fire up your neurons and tantalize your synapses. Condensed Knowledge is a mouthwatering mix of intriguing facts, lucid explanations, and mind-blowing theories that will satisfy even the hungriest mind

Ingredients include:

5 tiny nations that get no respect - 4 civilizations nobody remembers - 5 classics written under the influence - 4 things your boss has in common with slime mold - 3 schools of thought that will impress the opposite sex - 4 things Einstein got wrong - 5 classical tunes you know from the movies - 3 famous studies that would be illegal today - 2 religious mysteries solved by chemistry - 5 scandals that rocked art, and much more ...