mick o'hare
grrlscientist | March 5, 2008tags: How to Fossilize Your Hamster, scientific experiments, Mick O'Hare, book review
I sometimes think that I disappoint random strangers after they find out that I am a scientist because I am not engaging in a variety of odd experiments over coffee or beer. It's true that I enjoy answering people's questions, but I only sometimes suggest fun experiments such as those described in How to Fossilize Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments for the Armchair Scientist by Mick O'Hare of NewScientist magazine (NYC: Henry Holt Company; 2007).
But some scientists routinely get their friends…