Chronicles eccentric scientific experiments that have been performed throughout history, including an attempt to set off nuclear explosions on the Moon and Benjamin Franklin's mouth-to-beak resuscitation on an electric-shocked chicken.

Originally published: London : Boxtree, 2011.

1. Electric bodies. Electrifying birds ; The man who married his voltaic pile ; Electrocuting an elephant ; From electro-botany to electric schoolchildren ; Lightning, churches, and electrified sheep -- 2. Nuclear reactions. Psychoneurotic atomic goats ; How to survive an atomic bomb ; Nuke the moon! ; The incredible atomic spaceship -- 3. Deceptive ways. Men fight for science's sake ; The psychologist who hid beneath beds ; The metallic metals act ; A roomful of stooges ; Thud! ; The seductive Dr. Fox -- 4. Monkeying around. The man who talked to monkeys ; Chimpanzee butlers and monkey maids ; The man who made apes fight ; The mystery of the missing monkey orgasm ; The chimp who grew up human -- 5. Do-it-yourselfers. Hard to swallow ; This will be extremely painful ; Adventures in self-surgery ; Killing yourself for science.