Mark Leyner is the author of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog; I Smell Esther Williams; Et Tu Babe; and The Tetherballs of Bougainville. He has written scripts for a variety of films and television shows. His writing appears regularly in The New Yorker, Time, and GQ.
Billy Goldberg, M.D., is an emergency medicine physician on faculty at a New York City teaching hospital. He is also a writer and artist whose paintings have been exhibited in New York City.
Is There a Doctor in the House?
Say you’re at a party. You’ve had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly you’re introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions you’d like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor but haven’t had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. You’re filled with liquid courage . . . now is your chance! If you’ve ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .
•How do people in wheelchairs have sex?
•Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast?
•Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever?
•Why does asparagus make my pee smell?
•Why do old people grow hair on their ears?
•Is the old adage “beer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer . . .” really true?
. . . then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you.
Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist, Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.
知识的趣味化到底是对知识的贬低,还是仅仅是给生硬的知识穿了一件丝绸外衣?这本身是个伪问题,没有趣味的人通常对知识超乎寻常的崇敬,拥有某种专业知识确实要比做一个浑身上下都可爱得冒泡的人要容易得多——若干年前一个电视主持人说过,找不到快感的人才去找真理。不过...
评分这本书就是成人版的《十万个为什么》。可以帮你增添很多无聊的时候的话题。另外里面也有一些有意思的统计数据,比如说最长的打嗝时间是六十年,最长的打喷嚏时间是九百多天。还有,让我知道我们日常吃到的辣椒与最辣的辣椒相比辣味上要相差 400 到 600 倍。赫赫,挺起来蛮有挑...
评分前段时间,看到一篇报道,说易中天的书出版权被拍卖出了高价。然后就有人质疑,一个学者的书为什么会被拍卖出这么高的价钱?再然后,就有人酸酸地说:易中天不研究学术了,开始成畅销书作家了。因为书畅销,所以他的书学术价值含金量就低了。允许郭敬明这种二赖子的书畅销,为...
评分建议看英文原文。 这里只对照中文和英文的引子(Introduction)部分。 This book is an attempt to rectify this unfortunate situation. Inside these pages we will begin to answer some of the medical questions that real people ask. Pressing questions such as “Wh...
评分中国人一提起知识就容易严肃。这本书则是用插科打诨的方式传播了一些知识,也不高深,跟火星火箭GDP都无关,不过是关于我们的身体,纠了一些偏,补了一些白,而已。 信息量还是比较大的,准确度还是比较高的,可读性还是相当有的,适合于睡觉前/如厕时,轻松不累,一笑而过,...
虽然有几段觉得mark乱入蛮烦的,有些解释也不是很清晰,总体来说比较好笑,有几个问题真是好污啊哈哈哈哈哈
评分I have no idea why I started out on this...
评分每一个问题都是上好的知乎问答有没有?!确实适合作为厕所读物,一直出下去才是。
评分恩·吸人眼球的书名,为数不多我一口气能读下去的书~作者很风趣的纠正了我们很多平时理所当然却是错误的观念,值得一读!
评分seriously entertaining!
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