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The history of science is filled with many miraculous discoveries. ...It's also filled with exploding trousers, self-experimentation, a coachman's leg that becomes a museum piece and gas-powered radios. ''Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers'' regales us with fifty odd events on the way to scientific discovery. Part popular science book, part trivia, each article is a treat to read, either as a fun-sized nugget, or when reading from cover to cover.
I loved ''Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers''. It ticks all my boxes: funny, quirky, edifying, and filled with the sort of information you're dying to share with everyone you meet. Even if one faithfully devours trivia books of this ilk and watches programmes like ''QI'' and ''Mythbusters'', the selection of tales in ''Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers'' is remarkably fresh. There are a few that ring bells, but for the most part, it's original reading for trivia-heads. Given this, you might be concerned that the choice of anecdotes is weaker, but, without exception, they are an absolute delight to read.
