Electrified Sheep
by Alex Boese | 
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
by Sam Kean | 
The Naked Ape
by Desmond Morris | 
Crazy Like Us
by Ethan Watters | 
The Social Leap
by William von Hippel | 
Traffic
by Tom Vanderbilt | 
Seeing Voices
by Oliver Sacks | 
Sex at Dawn
by Christopher Ryan | 
Hallucinations
by Oliver Sacks | 
The Prehistory of the Mind
by Steven Mithen | 
Future Babble
by Dan Gardner |
The Deep History of Ourselves
by Joseph Ledoux | 
The Origins of Sex
by Faramerz Dabhoiwala | 
Faster
by James Gleick | 
The Book of Woe
by Gary Greenberg | 
Medical Muses
by Asti Hustvedt | 
The Guardian of All Things
by Michael S. Malone | 
Bonk
by Mary Roach |
Autism's False Prophets
by Paul A. Offit | 
LSD
by Albert Hofmann |
When Tusko the Elephant woke in his pen at the Lincoln Park Zoo on the morning of August 3, 1962, little did he know that he was about to become the test subject in an experiment to determine what happens to an elephant given a massive dose of LSD. In Elephants on Acid, Alex Boese reveals to readers the results of not only this scientific trial but of scores of other outrageous, amusing, and provocative experiments found in the files of modern science. Why can't people tickle themselves? Would the average dog summon help in an emergency? Will babies instinctually pick a well-balanced diet? Is it possible to restore life to the dead? Read Elephants on Acid and find out!