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"Do you know that Czech and German deer still do not cross the iron curtain? Or that in Scotland, most adults say it is acceptable for a man to marry his widow's sister? How about that vanilla yogurt gives mice glossier coats and larger testicles? Or that conservatism strongly correlates with a preference for name-brand mayonnaise? Such perverse nuggets of scientific discovery are assembled in Findings, the ... back-page column of Harper's Magazine, the nation's oldest literary monthly. Now these surreal shards of knowledge take on new life in illustrations by Graham Roumieu"--Dust jacket flap.…mehr

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"Do you know that Czech and German deer still do not cross the iron curtain? Or that in Scotland, most adults say it is acceptable for a man to marry his widow's sister? How about that vanilla yogurt gives mice glossier coats and larger testicles? Or that conservatism strongly correlates with a preference for name-brand mayonnaise? Such perverse nuggets of scientific discovery are assembled in Findings, the ... back-page column of Harper's Magazine, the nation's oldest literary monthly. Now these surreal shards of knowledge take on new life in illustrations by Graham Roumieu"--Dust jacket flap.
Autorenporträt
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine and has been writing the journal's popular Findings column, among other features, since 2007. Graham Roumieu is the author and illustrator of the celebrated Bigfoot "autobiographies" In Me Own Words, Me Write Book, and I Not Dead. His drawings appear in such publications as the Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, the New York Times, and the Walrus.