The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science

by Carly Anne York

A playful examination of how science's silliest research leads to crucial breakthroughs and enduring insights

Why would anyone research how elephants pee? Or study worms who tie themselves into a communal knot? Or quantify the squishability of a cockroach? It all sounds pointless, silly, or even disgusting.

Maybe it is. But in The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog, Carly Anne York shows how unappreciated, overlooked,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541605217
• ISBN13: 9781541605213
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"