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The Theory of Everything Else

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The Theory of Everything Else

Von: Dan Schreiber
Gesprochen von: Dan Schreiber, Jamie Morton, Ella Al-Shamahi, Craig Glenday
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This is not a book of facts; it’s a book of ‘facts’. Should you finish it believing we became the planet’s dominant species because predators found us too smelly to eat; or that the living bloodline of Christ is a family of Japanese garlic farmers – well, that’s on you.

Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Did life on Earth begin after a badly tidied-up picnic? Was it just an iceberg that sank the Titanic? Are authors stealing their plotlines from the future? Will we ever talk to animals? And why, when you’re in the shower, does the shower curtain always billow in towards you?

We don’t know the answers to any of these questions. But don’t worry, no matter what questions you have, you can bet on the fact that there is someone (or something) out there, investigating it on your behalf. From the sports stars who use cosmic energy to office plants investigating murders, The Theory of Everything Else will act as a handbook for those who want to think differently.

©2022 Dan Schreiber (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

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Listeners of the podcast „No such thing as a fish“ will be aware that Dan Schreiber has an affinity to facts that are, well, not really facts but odd stories, conspiracy theories or fringe science. This book is dedicated to many of these. Interesting to listen to, sometimes I shook my head in disbelief; especially the chapter about nobel laureates who later in their career became proponents of odd theories, conspiracy myths or even outright racism is shocking. The chapter about Tu Youyou is amazing and moving.

Dan Schreiber has lived in many places, therefore his accent is sometimes odd (which is frequently made fun of in the aforementioned podcast). In the chapter about magicians he pronounces Roy Horn‘s name a few times as „Ray“ which is at first bit irritating and later on turns out as an (unintended) spoiler.

The chapter about Newton is very strange to listen to because he consistently pronounces Edmond Halley‘s last name as „Hawley“ instead of rhyming it to „valley“. While his choice might be justified as derived from „hall“, the majority of physicists and astronomers pronounce it rhyming to „valley“. Since Dan Schreiber works (and describes himself) as a scientific researcher I am amazed that he apparently didn’t research this.

Quite Interesting with some idiosyncrasies

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