“Is it harmful to hold back when you want to sneeze?”, “Is it dangerous to eat “green” potatoes?”, “Is it true that smokers age faster?” are just some of the topics in the columns that Anahad O’Connor publishes every week in The New York Times under the heading «Really.»
“Is it harmful to hold back when you want to sneeze?”, “Is it dangerous to eat “green” potatoes?”, “Is it true that smokers age faster?” are just some of the topics in the columns that Anahad O’Connor publishes every week in The New York Times under the heading «Really.» Fishing out and analyzing a variety of near-medical misunderstandings, myths and grandmother’s tales, he spends countless hours delving into medical journals and databases, visiting scientific laboratories and distracting serious scientists from their experiments. And then he writes his wonderful, witty lyrics. In this fascinating book, the author also included texts «on slippery topics» that were not published in a reputable newspaper.
United Press, 288 p.