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.
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.
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,...
评分书里很多问题很有趣,而且如果深究的话应该能挖掘出很多话题来。 比如书名的这个问题:男人为什么有乳头?书里只是简单的描述了人体胚胎发育的过程,但事实上并没有回答“为什么”。为什么在胚胎初期发育的时候是部分男女的?这种情况在进化中是有优势的么? 作为趣味小知识来...
评分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...
评分书里很多问题很有趣,而且如果深究的话应该能挖掘出很多话题来。 比如书名的这个问题:男人为什么有乳头?书里只是简单的描述了人体胚胎发育的过程,但事实上并没有回答“为什么”。为什么在胚胎初期发育的时候是部分男女的?这种情况在进化中是有优势的么? 作为趣味小知识来...
评分这本书是本百科类或者科普类读物,但他的问题解答得相当有趣。也许很多人都不好意思问到的问题,这里有详细的解答。 不过现在网络发达了,也就不需要问谁了。可是在书中提到有趣的问题你可不一定能想出来,所以说这本书还是不错的,既有趣味又增长见识。
so many weird questions. but live with their hearts
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。
评分看得相当欢乐...
评分I enjoyed the humor! but really don't treat those knowledge too seriously. lol
评分A dangerous little muscle, that heart of yours./A men’s room seems to be the one place on earth where Emersonian self-reliance should be the rule./ Feels like I’m teetering on the precipice of something major./ avoid dangerous activities like smoking
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