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Alien hand syndrome and other too-weird-not-to-be-true stories

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Welcome to the five stages of reading Alien Hand Syndrome: Astonishment: This is amazing! Insecurity: I'm a smart person-- how could I never have heard of this before? Panic: Please, don't let it end. Gratitude: Great!--and look, there are over 90 more essays where that one came from. And Zeal: You won't believe what I just read. Collected and curated by Alan Bellows and his team at DamnInteresting.com, with over 400,000 unique visitors a month, this is the stuff nightmares are made of, and no one will be able to stop reading: Giant Carnivorous Centipedes; Mike, the Headless Chicken; The Exploding Lakes of Cameroon; The Swirling Vortex of Doom; Secret Agent Cyborg Cats; Fiery Balls of Naga; The Deepest Hole; The Terrifying Toothpick Fish; and, of course, Alien Hand Syndrome--a disorder wherein a person's hand develops a "will of its own," unbuttoning shirts, grabbing at the steering wheel, tossing away cigarettes, and in some cases actually attacking its host. Most entries are full-blown narratives, complete with illustrations--for example, pointing out step-by-step how "The Halifax Disaster" unfolded. Other entries examine short-take anomalies--such as unusual drug side effects, including the antidepressant Clomipramine (spontaneous orgasm upon yawning), the hormone Oxytocin (increases one's generosity), the medicine for Parkinson's disease, Ropinirole (compulsive gambling), and Viagra (priapus syndrome, with a remote chance of gangrene curable only through penectomy--say no more).

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Publisher
Workman Pub.
Language
English
Pages
294

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Alien hand syndrome and other too-weird-not-to-be-true stories
2009, Workman Pub.
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Anecdotes
Other Titles
Damn interesting.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
001.9
Library of Congress
AG243 .B4195 2009, AG243.B4195 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
294

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23192003M
Internet Archive
alienhandsyndrom0000bell
ISBN 13
9780761152255
LCCN
2009010824
OCLC/WorldCat
234447425
Library Thing
8336340
Goodreads
6366807

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