Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge - by Editors of Mental Floss (Paperback)

About the Book

From the team that brought you the enormously successful magazine of the same name comes this trove of fun and useful information that blurs the line between great education and great entertainment.

From the Back Cover

Loaded with meaty trivia and tasty, bite-sized facts!

mental_floss is proud to offer a delicious, hearty helping of brain-food that's sure to fire up your neurons and tantalize your synapses. Condensed Knowledge is a mouthwatering mix of intriguing facts, lucid explanations, and mind-blowing theories that will satisfy even the hungriest mind!

Ingredients include:

5 tiny nations that get no respect - 4 civilizations nobody remembers - 5 classics written under the influence - 4 things your boss has in common with slime mold - 3 schools of thought that will impress the opposite sex - 4 things Einstein got wrong - 5 classical tunes you know from the movies - 3 famous studies that would be illegal today - 2 religious mysteries solved by chemistry - 5 scandals that rocked art, and much more ...

Review Quotes

"A lot like that professor of your who peppered his tests with raunchy jokes: it makes learning fun." - Newsweek
"A delightfully eccentric and eclectic new magazine." - Washington Post
"Part scholarly journal, part Spy magazine protégé." - Charlotte Observer
"For the discerning intellect, Mental Floss cleans out the cobwebs." - Chicago Tribune
"A single issue packs enough cocktail party ammo to make even the most intellectually detached person the kind of trivia-spouting maniac not seen since "Cheers" mailman Cliff Clavin." - Los Angeles Times
"There's only one place I would expect to find this amazing font of knowledge and good humor, and that is Birmingham. There is also a statue of some kind of God of Iron in Birmingham. It stands on a hill, and holds a lightning bolt. I like that statue, but not as much as Mental Floss' Condensed Knowledge, because it is Good." - Dave Eggers
Clever presentation and funny headlines aside, this book serves up a nourishing meat-and-potatoes menu of cultural information. Chances are you'll find that reading it is "M'm! M'm! Good!" - Hartford Courant
"The titans of trivia." - Newsweek
"An ideal reference to settle arguments or jog your memory." - Calgary Herald